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  1. China’s Orwellian ‘credit rating’ system measures behaviour of citizens

    Appeared in the Battlefords News-Optimist, November 13, 2015 Orwellian may be the most misused adjective in the language. Just about anything qualifies, from security cameras to law-and-order legislation to the bonus scheme for the Pan Am Games (really, ...

  2. Economic Freedom and the Building Blocks of Prosperity and Stability

    Appeared in the American Thinker, November 6, 2015 For almost 20 years, the Fraser Institute’s Economic Freedom of the World report has highlighted the many benefits of economic freedom: more prosperity, faster and more sustained economic growth, higher ...

  3. Lack of economic vision threatens stability in Tunisia

    Appeared in the Huffington Post, October 27, 2015 Tunisia’s National Dialogue Quartet, a coalition of four civil society groups, richly deserves the Nobel Peace Prize for shepherding Tunisia through turbulent times. However, the Norwegian Nobel committee, ...

  4. Fraser Institute wins prestigious international award

    The Fraser Institute has been awarded the 2015 Sir Antony Fisher International Memorial Award by the Atlas Network for our book, What America’s Decline in Economic Freedom Means for Entrepreneurship and Prosperity. Established in 1990, ...

  5. Economic Freedom of the World: 2015 Annual Report

    The Fraser Institute’s annual report, Economic Freedom of the World, measures the economic freedom (levels of personal choice, ability to enter markets, security of privately owned property, rule of law, etc.) by analyzing the policies and institutions of ...

  6. The Human Freedom Index 2015

    The Human Freedom Index presents a broad measure of human freedom around the world through the use of 76 indicators of personal, civil and economic freedoms to rank 152 countries around the world. It is the most comprehensive freedom index so far created ...

  7. Economic Freedom, Individual Perceptions of Life Control, and Life Satisfaction

    Happiness economics has shown that the degree to which people feel they are in control of their lives positively correlates with personal life satisfaction. In a parallel manner, economic freedom has been found to exert an independent impact on life ...

  8. Nationalist and religious states aren’t interested in conversation

    Appeared in Business in Vancouver Perhaps we should be mourning the passing of the Soviet empire. With the eruption of ISIS in the Middle East and the ongoing autocracies in Russia and China, pause for a moment and think back to the last century and ...

  9. The political and democratic struggle for economic freedom

    Studies have shown that economic freedom remains a major determinant of living standards, economic growth, and other indicators of social and economic well-being in a country. The level of economic freedom is the product of fights ...

  10. 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 ...