In this study, we develop a dynamic system model that exhibits only one stable solution (sink) to analyze the impact of various factors on low-carbon transition, including policy implications, energy consumption, and energy capacity. Our aim is to provide policy recommendations based on the...

Economists have become very influential intellectuals in our contemporary society. The scientific knowledge produced by the discipline and the academic status of economists can be considered as a decisive power resource in media debates and politics. The current state of economics has been...

The index published in Economic Freedom of the World measures the degree to which the policies and institutions of countries are supportive of economic freedom. The cornerstones of economic freedom are personal choice, voluntary exchange, freedom to enter markets and compete, and security of the...

The present chapter is premised on the assumption that the promotion of liberal market values is an essential objective of the international economic order, but that so too is (and will be) the preservation of institutional diversity and the capacity for institutional innovation, against which...

In this paper, Richard A. Epstein, Professor of Law at the University of Chicago, explains how there are substantial gains to be made from countries getting ‘easy’ policy decisions correct. Societies collapse and become impoverished when they do not accept the basic principles of freedom to...