by Dan Mitchell | Feb 17, 2019 | Blogs, Economics, Socialism
Over the past four days, I’ve looked at the supposed socialism of Venezuela, the Nordic nations, Greece, and France. And I chose those nations deliberately because I used them as examples in this clip from a recent interview. All of them are sometimes labeled as...
by Dan Mitchell | Feb 6, 2019 | Blogs, Economics
I wrote a couple of days ago about America’s best and worst cities for pro-market policy, and I noted that there are several rankings of economic liberty for statesand nations. But what if you want to know the place with the most overall freedom? In other words, what...
by Dan Mitchell | Feb 4, 2019 | Blogs, Economics
There are several options if you want to measure economic freedom and competitiveness among nations (rankings from the Fraser Institute, Heritage Foundation, and World Economic Forum). You also have many choices if you want to measure economic freedom and...
by Dan Mitchell | Feb 1, 2019 | Blogs, Economics
My favorite annual publication from the Heritage Foundation, the Index of Economic Freedom, has just been released. Like the Fraser Institute’s Economic Freedom of the World and, to a lesser extent, the World Economic Forum’s Global Competitiveness Report, the...
by Dan Mitchell | Oct 24, 2018 | Blogs, Economics, Free Market
My favorite publication every year is Economic Freedom of the World. It’s filled with data on fiscal policy, regulatory policy, trade policy, monetary policy, and quality of governance for 162 jurisdictions, and it provides an unbiased way of gauging the degree to...
