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What is freedom–and does wealth cause it?

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  29 August 2013

Ravi Iyer ,
Matt Motyl  and
Jesse Graham
Ravi Iyer
Affiliation:
Department of Psychology, University of Southern California, Los Angeles, CA 90089. raviiyer@usc.edu www.polipsych.com jesse.graham@usc.edu usc.edu/grahamlab
Matt Motyl
Affiliation:
Department of Psychology, University of Virginia, Charlottesville, VA 22904. motyl@virginia.edu people.virginia.edu/~msm6sw/
Jesse Graham
Affiliation:
Department of Psychology, University of Southern California, Los Angeles, CA 90089. raviiyer@usc.edu www.polipsych.com jesse.graham@usc.edu usc.edu/grahamlab
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Abstract

The target article's climato-economic theory will benefit by allowing for bidirectional effects and the heterogeneity of types of freedom, in order to more fully capture the coevolution of societal wealth and freedom. We also suggest alternative methods of testing climato-economic theory, such as longitudinal analyses of these countries' histories and micro-level experiments of each of the theory's hypotheses.

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Behavioral and Brain Sciences , Volume 36 , Issue 5 , October 2013 , pp. 492 - 493
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Copyright © Cambridge University Press 2013 

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