Comparing the Spread of Capitalism and Democracy

Originally published in Economics Letters

The authors apply Leeson and Dean’s (2009) method for studying democratic dominoes to capitalist spillovers to compare the rates at which capitalism and democracy spread between countries. They find that capitalism and democracy spread at approximately the same modest rate.

The authors apply Leeson and Dean’s (2009) method for studying democratic dominoes to capitalist spillovers to compare the rates at which capitalism and democracy spread between countries. They find that capitalism and democracy spread at approximately the same modest rate.

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