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1. Growing government, increased regulation primary threats to economic freedom in Canada

   Since comprehensive data for Economic Freedom became available in 1970, Canada’s had a secure place in the world’s top 10 jurisdictions. But could Canada be at the beginning of a long slow decline, like the one that has afflicted the ...

2. Memo to the White House—if it matters, measure it

   The Fraser Institute’s motto is that “if it matters, measure it.” Our motto is a constant reminder of the importance of measuring the effect of government policy interventions on people’s lives, and it guides our work every day. Of ...

3. Economic freedom takes force off the table, creates mutually beneficial incentives

   Why is economic freedom important? Is it intrinsically valuable or is it valuable because of the outcomes it produces? That was a key question when then-Fraser Institute executive director Michael Walker and Milton and Rose Friedman ...

4. Spreading the Economic Freedom Message

   Appeared in Fraser Insight, January 2017 Economic freedom is one of the main drivers of prosperity, as the Fraser Institute’s Economic Freedom of North America index (EFNA) has illustrated—and hundreds of independent studies have confirmed. For a dozen ...

5. Spreading the news on the state of economic freedom

   Appeared in The American Thinker, December 18, 2016 The Fraser Institute has released its 12th edition of the Economic Freedom of North America index (EFNA), which ranks and compares the levels of economic freedom across North America and within the U.S., ...

6. 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 ...

7. Economic Freedom of the Arab World: 2016 Annual Report

   Economic Freedom of the Arab World aims to provide a reliable and objective metric of economic policy throughout the Arab World. It measures the extent to which citi-zens of the nations of the Arab League are able to make their own economic decisions ...

8. The Human Freedom Index 2016

   The index published here presents a broad measure of human freedom, understood as the absence of coercive constraint. It uses 79 distinct indicators of personal and economic freedom in the following areas: Rule of Law Security and Safety Movement Religion ...

9. Stronger patent laws can save lives in the developing world

   Why don’t Canadians, Americans or Europeans fear rabies, leprosy or malaria? These diseases exist and a few cases are reported every year. But some people are so confident they’ll never get rabies, for example, that they feed raccoons in ...

10. Clinton and Trump—similar policy prescriptions that may not bode well for the U.S. or Canada

    The highly contentious presidential campaign between Hillary Clinton and Donald Trump often seems less about policy and more about trading insults, personal attacks and generally being unpleasant. This was particularly true in Sunday& ...