Inequality is a pressing concern, acknowledged by scholars, leaders, and organizations
globally. Former US President Obama referred to rising inequality as 'the defining challenge …

This paper analyzes the impact of economic freedom along with traditional economic factors
on economic growth for a panel of European countries. The growth of the gross domestic …

Economic freedom facilitates the market selection mechanism that enables the
Schumpeterian creative destruction process. I develop a framework depicting how economic …

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

Previous research on the relationship between economic freedom and income inequality
has produced mixed results. We provide a short survey of this literature, identifying potential …

We expand previous US state‐level research on the relationship between pro‐market
institutions and labor market outcomes by examining this relationship at the US metropolitan …

Concerns about the institutional impact of immigration, particularly in the United States, are
not new. We can trace them back to Benjamin Franklin, Thomas Jefferson, and Alexander …

The concept of economic freedom is based on the existence and functioning of a market
economy, with minimal intervention and the role of the state in the market and the private …

There is a large literature estimating the effect of economic freedom on economic growth or
income levels. Most studies examine the relationship between economic freedom and …

This study examines the potential determinants of state-level economic freedom for a panel
of the 50 US states from 1994 to 2020. To address model uncertainty in the identification of …