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Is Freedom Just About the Absence of Inhibitions, or Also About the Availability of Options?

Discussion Between Fred McMahon of the Fraser Institute and Jan Ott of the Erasmus University Rotterdam

Authors: Jan Ott, Fred MacMahon

Published in: Social Indicators Research | Issue 1/2019

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The article ‘Measuring Economic Freedom; better without Size of Government’ by Jan Ott, researcher at the Erasmus University Rotterdam, was published in Social Indicators Research 135, nr. 2, 2018 (https://doi.org/10.1007/s11205-016-1508-x; http://link.springer.com/article/10.1007/s11205-016-1508-x). …

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Title: Is Freedom Just About the Absence of Inhibitions, or Also About the Availability of Options?
Discussion Between Fred McMahon of the Fraser Institute and Jan Ott of the Erasmus University Rotterdam
Authors: Jan Ott
Fred MacMahon
Publication date: 23-04-2018
Publisher: Springer Netherlands
Published in: Social Indicators Research / Issue 1/2019
Print ISSN: 0303-8300
Electronic ISSN: 1573-0921
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1007/s11205-018-1897-0

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