Every January for the last 16 years, the conservative Heritage Foundation has published an Index of Economic Freedom, ranking the world's nations based on the think tank's arbitrary judgments ...

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 had generally increased slightly in recent years until the COVID-19 pandemic and particularly government policy reactions to it reversed this trend.

Every January for the last 16 years, the conservative Heritage Foundation has published an Index of Economic Freedom, ranking the world's nations based on the think tank's arbitrary judgments.

New Hampshire ranks first in the most recent edition of the Fraser Institute’s Economic Freedom of North America (EFNA) index. Florida and Tennessee round out the top three.

Neoliberal orthodoxy holds that economic freedom is the basis of every other kind. That orthodoxy, a Nobel economist says, is not only false; it is devouring itself.

In 2020, the average national freedom score dropped from 6.94 to 6.77 due to responses to the COVID pandemic. Government spending, inflation, and restrictions on international commerce drove the ...

Economic freedom took a big hit in the global financial crisis of 2007-09 – but this time the blow was three times worse. The potential impacts of economic freedom’s decline range from ...

The Human Freedom Report 2022 compared 165 countries -- 98.1% of the world’s population -- on measures of personal and economic freedom.