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1. Economic Freedom of North America 2019

   Economic Freedom of North America 2019 is the fifteenth edition of the Fraser Institute’s annual report. This year it measures the extent to which—in 2017, the year with the most recent available comprehensive data—the policies of individual provinces and ...

2. Economic Freedom of North America 2018

   Economic Freedom of North America 2018 is the fourteenth edition of the Fraser Institute’s annual report. This year it measures the extent to which the policies of individual provinces and states were, in 2016, supportive of economic freedom, the ability ...

3. Economic Freedom of North America 2017

   Economic Freedom of North America 2017 is the thirteenth edition of the Fraser Institute’s annual report. This year it measures the extent to which the policies of individual provinces and states were, in 2015, supportive of economic freedom, the ability ...

4. Economic Freedom of North America 2016

   Economic Freedom of North America 2016 is the twelfth edition of the Fraser Institute’s annual report. This year it measures the extent to which the policies of individual provinces and states were, in 2014, supportive of economic freedom, the ability of ...

5. Best Practices in Distributing and Promoting EFNA

   Appeared in Fraser Insight, July 2016 Economic freedom is one of the main drivers of prosperity and growth, and the evidence shows that states with low levels of economic freedom reduce the ability of their citizens to prosper economically. The Fraser ...

6. The Retreat of Economic Freedom Continues

   Appeared in The American Thinker, December 22, 2015 The self-styled “land of the free” is not as free as it once was—or as we in the United States think of ourselves. But don’t take my word for it. The U.S. ranks 16th in the Fraser Institute’s latest ...

7. Economic Freedom of North America: 2015 Annual Report

   Economic Freedom of North America 2015 is the 11th edition of our annual report, in which we measure the extent to which policies of individual provinces and states are supportive of economic freedom—the ability of individuals to act in the economic ...

8. The Decline Of The American Entrepreneur

   Appeared in Forbes The United States continues to suffer from a historically weak economic recovery. Monthly GDP and employment numbers remain near anemic. From a historical perspective the economy should be roaring by now given the pronounced contraction ...

9. What America’s Decline in Economic Freedom Means for Entrepreneurship and Prosperity

   There is ongoing interest both inside and outside the United States regarding the nation’s tepid and abnormally slow recovery from the pronounced contractions in 2008. A number of scholars have explained components of the slow recovery but almost no ...

10. Care about Cuba? Open up its markets

    Appeared in the Calgary Herald and Waterloo Region Record The pre-Christmas announcement by President Obama that the United States would re-establish diplomatic relations with Cuba will reignite a number of debates. One will be about the cause of Cuban ...