by Dan Mitchell | Mar 10, 2026 | Blogs, Economics, Free Market
March 9 was the 250th anniversary of the publication of Adam Smith’s Wealth of Nations. I wanted to celebrate that occasion yesterday, but decided acknowledging Argentina’s rapid improvement in the Index of Economic Freedom was more timely. So...
by Dan Mitchell | Feb 16, 2026 | Blogs, Europe, Free Market
The good news is that Europe has a lot of economic freedom by world standards. Especially Western Europe. The bad news is that economic freedom has been declining in Western Europe. To make matters worse, Europe has a big demographic problem,...
by Dan Mitchell | Feb 12, 2026 | Blogs, Economics, Free Market
At the end of last year, I celebrated two years of libertarian progress in Argentina. Now, thanks to strong results for President Milei’s libertarian party in the October mid-term elections, I’ll hopefully have a column at the end of this year to...
by Dan Mitchell | Feb 9, 2026 | Blogs, Economics, Free Market
Based on a CF&P video from back in 2010, as well a video from Johan Norberg I shared in 2016, there’s a lot to learn by looking at Swedish economic history. Here’s a more recent video that also looks at that nation’s economic track record. You’ll notice a similar...
by Dan Mitchell | Jan 25, 2026 | Blogs, Economic Growth, Europe
About five years ago, I fretted about the gradual erosion of economic liberty in Western Europe. And I followed up two years ago with similar analysis, grousing that the entire western world was joining Western Europe in the drift toward more...
