Revisiting the relationship between economic freedom and development to account for statistical deception by autocratic regimes

SP Alvarez, V Geloso, M Scheck - European Journal of Political Economy, 2024 - Elsevier
The literature connecting economic freedom indexes to income levels and growth generally
points in the direction of a positive association. In this paper, we argue that this finding is a …

Economic Growth in the Age of Ubiquitous Threats: How Global Risks are Reshaping Growth Theory

O Gomes - Economics, 2024 - degruyter.com
One of the most outstanding accomplishments of the economic science over the last
decades is the development of a sound and coherent theory of economic growth. Research …

Militarized climate planning: what is left?

NP Goodman, JK Lofthouse, M Novak - The Review of Austrian Economics, 2024 - Springer
Some academics and commentators argue that societies should engage in centralized
planning to avoid climate change impacts, similar to war-time economic planning from the …

Reaffirming the Wheat Boom: New Evidence for Structural Breaks in Canadian Economic Growth

J Bologna Pavlik, V Geloso, C Pender - Available at SSRN, 2023 - papers.ssrn.com
In the last years of the 19th century, Canada experienced a``wheat boom". Since the 1960s,
historians and economists have debated whether the boom meaningfully accelerated …

Presidents in deficit: are there historical rewards to deficits?

V Geloso, M Shera - Journal of Public Finance and …, 2023 - bristoluniversitypressdigital.com
Buchanan and Wagner pointed to an asymmetry in the political rewards of deficits and
surpluses, with the former being preferable to the latter. They assigned the rise of this …

Economic Freedom Matters A Lot More for Economic Development Than You Think!

SP Alvarez, V Geloso, M Scheck - 2023 - papers.ssrn.com
The literature connecting economic freedom indexes to income levels and growth generally
points in the direction of a positive association. In this paper, we argue that this finding is a …