The Fraser Institute has released its new Economic Freedom of the World Index, and for the first time the United States ranks below Canada in terms of economic freedom. Not just below but significantly below. The United States ranks tenth in the world and Canada ranks a comfortable 6th. But before you get too smug [...]
Category Archives: World Freedom Project
Economic Freedom of the World Index shows decline in Canada
Posted by Hugh MacIntyre on September 20, 2011 Comments Off
Comparing the world, in terms of freedom
Posted by Peter Jaworski on March 14, 2011 20 comments
I suggested we should put together a meta-index, and listed a bunch of possible indexes that already exist which we could use for our overall evaluation. There appear to be two such indexes already: The Free Existence meta-index, as well as the Institutional Quality Index (the actual report is in Spanish h/t Nico in the [...]