The Two Freedoms, Economic Growth and Development: An Empirical Study

Wenbo Wu and Otto A Davis

Public Choice, 1999, vol. 100, issue 1-2, 39-64

Abstract: Log-linear methods are applied to categorical data containing economic freedom, political freedom, the level of income, and the rate of economic growth for a panel of about 100 countries from 1975 to 1992. The main results are: given economic freedom, the rate of economic growth is independent of political freedom and the level of income; given the level of income, political freedom is independent of economic freedom and the growth rate. The analysis suggests the fundamental effects of economic freedom in fostering economic growth, and a high level of income as the condition of a high degree of political freedom. Copyright 1999 by Kluwer Academic Publishers

Date: 1999
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