All Posts Tagged With: "Heritage Foundation"
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“Economic Freedom of the World” Doesn’t Endorse Free Trade Agreements As two of the principal authors of the Economic Freedom of the World (EFW) index published by the Fraser Institute, we might be accused of being overly defensive when it comes to criticisms of such indexes. For this reason, we typically choose to remain silent [...]
21Apr2011 | Foundation for Economic Education | 1 comment | ContinuedWhat Economic Freedom Indexes Leave Out
In a syndicated column last October, television journalist John Stossel lamented the downgrading from sixth to eighth place—“behind Canada!”—of the United States on the Heritage Foundation/Wall Street Journal Index of Economic Freedom. The Index is based on several metrics, including freedom of movement of capital, the degree of business regulation, and levels of taxes and [...]
24Feb2011 | Kevin A. Carson | 6 comments | ContinuedEconomic Freedom: The Path to Development
Economic development has historically been exceptional rather than typical. As Peruvian economist Hernando de Soto has observed in The Mystery of Capital: Why Capitalism Triumphs in the West and Fails Everywhere Else, capitalism has been successful mainly in the West. Consequently, there are tremendous income disparities around the world. In 2000, real income per person [...]
1Apr2005 | Gerald P. O'Driscoll, Jr. | 0 comments | ContinuedWhy Economies Grow
Aaron Schavey is a policy analyst in the Center for International Trade and Economics (CITE) at the Heritage Foundation. One of the consequences of living in an affluent society such as the United States is that the poverty of the majority of the world is often overlooked. For instance, a recent report from the Organization [...]
1Nov2001 | Aaron Schavey | 2 comments | Continued1997 Index of Economic Freedom by Kim R. Holmes, Bryan T. Johnson, and Melanie Kirkpatrick
The Heritage Foundation and Dow Jones & Company • 1997 • 486 pages • $24.95 Mr. Leef is the book review editor of The Freeman. This is one of the most useful reference works that an advocate of economic freedom can own. What the authors have done, continuing and expanding on a project begun in [...]
1Jun1997 | George C. Leef | 0 comments | ContinuedThe Flat Tax: Freedom, Fairness, Jobs, and Growth
Dr. Peterson, an adjunct scholar for the Heritage Foundation, is Distinguished Lundy Professor Emeritus of Business Philosophy at Campbell University in North Carolina. Mounting taxes push the Tax Foundation’s “Tax Freedom Day” out to May 6, a day when presumably John Q. Taxpayer stops working for government—federal, state, and local—and at last starts working for [...]
1Sep1996 | William H. Peterson | 0 comments | Continued-
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