This Chapter examines how the market economy affects cultural traits, in particular trust, tolerance, and antisemitism. The results indicate economic freedom generates social trust and tolerance. The relationship to antisemitism is complex. Gains in one area of economic freedom, the legal system, reduce it while gains in another, trade openness, increase it.
Reference:
Berggren, Niclas and Therese Nilsson (2020),
"Economic Freedom as a Driver of Trust and Tolerance".
Chapter 3,
pp.
187–211
in
James Gwartney, Robert Lawson, Joshua Hall and Ryan Murphy, eds.,
Economic Freedom of the World: 2020 Annual Report.
Vancouver:
Fraser Institute.