Poverty spells and economic freedom: Canadian evidence
In: Journal of economic behavior & organization, Band 224, S. 282-296
ISSN: 1879-1751, 0167-2681
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In: Journal of economic behavior & organization, Band 224, S. 282-296
ISSN: 1879-1751, 0167-2681
In: European journal of law and economics, Band 57, Heft 3, S. 403-434
ISSN: 1572-9990
AbstractWhy did the United States move from having nearly open borders from the 1840s to the 1870s to passing the Chinese Exclusion Act in 1882, the first law in American history to ban people from entering the United States solely based on race? We argue that the standard story of nativist backlash based on wage pressure explains the demand for immigration restrictions, but not their timing or their racial focus. The demand for immigration restrictions was largely inchoate until the political restructuring that followed the Civil War. Finding themselves uncompetitive in much of the country, the Democrats seized on immigration restrictions, most notably in growing California, as a wedge issue. Chinese residents were unable to vote, thus making restrictions on Chinese entry an especially effective strategy in political economy.
In: Oxford Handbook on Private Enterprise, edited by Edward Peter Stringham. New York: Oxford University Press.
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In: Social science quarterly, Band 104, Heft 4, S. 377-394
ISSN: 1540-6237
This paper investigates therelationship between prosperity and national account data during wartime, focusing on Canada. In particular, we build off of existing literature arguing that military outlays must be excluded for real output measures to reasonably approximate economic prosperity. We analyse all non‐war components of Canadian gross national product during both world wars and estimate a novel price deflator for World War II in order to take into account wartime price controls. This allows us to obtain a new estimate of real output in Canada excluding military outlays. We then compare the trends in our new real output series with domestic private investment and stock market trends, all three of which either fell or grew at an anemic pace in Canada during both world wars. Combined, we argue that this provides evidence against the idea of wartime prosperity and more specifically, against the notion of World War II ending the Great Depression in Canada.
In: GMU Working Paper in Economics Forthcoming
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In: GMU Working Paper in Economics No. 23-08
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In: Journal of institutional economics, Band 18, Heft 5, S. 807-826
ISSN: 1744-1382
AbstractEconomic freedom is robustly associated with income growth, but does this association extend to the poorest in a society? In this paper, we employ Canada's longitudinal cohorts of income mobility between 1982 and 2018 to answer this question. We find that economic freedom, as measured by the Fraser Institute's Economic Freedom of North America (EFNA) index, is positively associated with multiple measures of income mobility for people in the lowest income deciles, including (a) absolute income gain; (b) the percentage of people with rising income; and (c) average decile mobility. For the overall population, economic freedom has weaker effects.
In: Analyse & Kritik: journal of philosophy and social theory, Band 43, Heft 2, S. 413-435
ISSN: 2365-9858
AbstractThomas Piketty'sCapital and Ideology(2020) offers a powerful critique of ideological justifications for inequality in capitalist societies. Does this mean we should reject capitalist institutions altogether? This paper defends some aspects of capitalism by explaining the epistemic function of market economies and their ability to harness capital to meet the needs of the relatively disadvantaged. We support this classical liberal position with reference to empirical research on historical trends in inequality that challenges some of Piketty's interpretations of the data. Then we discuss the implications of this position in terms of limits on the efficacy of participatory governance within firms and the capacity of the state to levy systematic taxes on wealth.
In: Cliometrica: journal of historical economics and econometric history, Band 16, Heft 3, S. 615-637
ISSN: 1863-2513
In: GMU Working Paper in Economics No. 21-46
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In: A Research Agenda for Austrian Economics, edited by Steven Horwitz and Louis Rouanet, Forthcoming
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In: GMU Working Paper in Economics No. 21-31
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In: GMU Working Paper in Economics No. 21-32
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In: GMU Working Paper in Economics No. 21-29
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