Economic nationalists insist that tariffs were central to the economy’s takeoff in the late 19th century. The evidence ...

The index of economic freedom can monitor whether new markets like BRICS nations (Brazil, Russia, India, China, and South Africa) are seeing the policy changes necessary for growth to benefit ...

Explore the Index of Economic Freedom to gauge global impacts of liberty and free markets. Discover the powerful link between economic freedom and progress. The 31st edition, once again ...

Economic freedom includes a lot of things, such as taxes, government spending and regulations, and labor market freedom. It's a good way to measure opportunity and economic hope in a state or ...

The Heritage Foundation recently released its 2014 Index of Economic Freedom. For 20 years, the foundation has used a consistent empirical measurement to evaluate countries worldwide. The results ...

Economic freedom—not the environmental, social, and governance agenda—makes the world cleaner, safer, and better governed. It is not hard to find the economic damage that is inflicted by ...

In this sense, economic freedom epitomises what I choose to call the FOUR POSTULATES of capitalism, and its enjoyment is subject to the two fundamental economic forces of (1) supply and demand or ...

That’s why economic freedom isn’t chiefly about profits; it’s about prosperity for ordinary people. The report reminds us why we shouldn’t wish economic oppression on our worst enemies. For example, ...

Over the past few years, academic economists and think tanks have published studies on freedom that offer valuable insights ...

Heritage Economic Freedom Index Rankings vs. Prosperity Measures (2019) The first way to check is to look at history. In the 1940’s and 1950’s, three countries were divided between Communist ...

Global economic freedom is in decline for the third consecutive year. Even traditionally free economies like the United States are slipping, with increased government spending, heavier regulatory ...

Economic freedom correlates with almost all of life’s good things. When ranked based on economic freedom, the freest countries outperform the least free on per capita income, life expectancy, infant ...