Abstract
Economic freedom facilitates the market selection mechanism that enables the Schumpeterian creative destruction process. I develop a framework depicting how economic freedom, which reduces entry barriers and transactions costs, acts as an external enabler that facilitates the creation of firms and jobs. It also facilitates the market correction device, potentially serving as a disabling force to allow firm and job destruction. Using a novel MSA-level dataset, I investigate empirically the role of local economic freedom on dynamism over the period 1972-2012. My results confirm that economic freedom is positively associated with firm and job creation, but it has no effect on firm and job destruction.
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