... more restrained cultures were associated with greater business and monetary freedoms. Higher individualism was predictive of greater monetary freedom. Catholicism positively predicted investment freedom and negatively predicted business freedom. French civil law negatively predicted labor freedom...

... for a multitude of constructs, they are not the only important variables to consider. La Porta et al. (1999) examined the quality of a country’s government in relation to that country’s legal origin (the legal tradition from which the country’s laws developed) and the religious affiliations of its...