Traditional policy reforms of the type embodied in the Washington Consensus have been
out of academic fashion for decades. However, we are not aware of a paper that …

Entrepreneurship has been connected to several socio-economic issues. However, despite
the growing conjectures, the links with democracy have yet to be substantiated. By using a …

The literature has shown that economic freedom yields higher economic growth. However,
the nexus between economic freedom and the environment in a world of spatial …

Economic arguments against immigration suggest that immigrants undermine the culture,
institutions, and productivity of destination countries. But is that true? Nowrasteh and Powell …

The cross-country relationship between economic freedom and inequality is explored using
matching methods. This approach addresses selection bias and endogeneity generally …

The Covid-19 pandemic in 2020 led to extensive new government regulations and lockdown
policies that, according to some prominent definitions, severely reduced economic freedom …

This chapter investigates the relationship between immigration and economic freedom and
asks the following question: do immigrants value economic freedom? To answer this …

Using cross-section, panel, and probit models for a panel of 112 countries over the 2005–
2018 period, we examine the effect of natural resource rents on institutional and policy …

Stay‐at‐home orders curtailed the individual liberty of those across the United States.
Governors of some states moved swiftly to impose the lockdowns. Others delayed and a few …

The impact of ethnic diversity on economic performance is a divisive topic in literature that
needs to be explored further. There are two opposing views about the relationship between …