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  1. Economic Freedom of North America: 2014 Annual Report

    Economic Freedom of North America 2014 is the 10th 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 ...

  2. Economic Freedom of the Arab World: 2014 Annual Report

    Economic freedom provides a path to a better, more prosperous, more stable, and freer tomorrow for the Arab world. Economic freedom is simply the ability of individuals and families to take charge of their fate and make their own economic decisions—to ...

  3. Human Freedom: From Pericles to Measurement

    Appeared in The Independent Review, Summer 2014 Without an objective measure of freedom, it is impossible to determine whether an action leads to increases or decreases in freedom, whether it lends stability to freedom or causes instability, or whether ...

  4. Liberty in the crosshairs in Hong Kong

    Appeared in the National Post As pro-democracy demonstrations flare across Hong Kong, it continues to rank first in the world in economic freedom. Hong Kong has been at the top since 1970, according to the just-released Fraser Institute Economic Freedom ...

  5. Arab Spring wilts under continued cronyism

    Appeared in the Huffington Post With violence flaring in the Middle East, the Arab Spring seems like a distant wilted dream. Yet, some green shoots have sprouted. The violence that spun out of the Arab Spring in Egypt, Libya, Yemen, and Syria (and has ...

  6. Want to stop “illegal” immigrants from Central America? Copy Chile

    Appeared in GlobeandMail.com The presidents of Guatemala, Honduras, and El Salvador just visited U.S. President Barack Obama to urge him to change course in combatting the flood of illegal immigrants into the United States. The three heads of state ...

  7. Institutions and Economic, Political, and Civil Liberty in the Arab World

    The Arab Spring disrupted an already turbulent region. A denial of economic freedom launched the Arab Spring but despite this origin, little economic thought has emerged in its wake. This lack of an economic policy vision may be under-appreciated and will ...

  8. Free markets and civil peace

    Scholars of armed conflict argue that it must be feasible before it will occur and suggest that adequate finance is a key ingredient for organizing violence against a state. In Free Markets and Civil Peace, we argue that economic repression and market ...

  9. Putin's impatience over Crimea a strategic error

    Appeared in the Okanagan Saturday Napoleon famously cautioned against interfering with an enemy making a mistake. So why is the West interfering with Vladimir Putin’s massive mistake in Crimea? More puzzling is the West’s unstated goal of legitimizing ...

  10. Economic Freedom of North America: 2013 Annual Report

    This is the ninth edition of the annual report, Economic Freedom of North America. The results of this year?s study confirm those published in the previous eight editions: economic freedom is a powerful driver of growth and prosperity. Those provinces and ...