The irony: America’s bureaucratic largesse as well as its erosion of property rights and rule of law are affecting the country’s Human Freedom Index, while Hong Kong remained the top-ranked entity due to more free-market ideas.
Topic: economic freedom
Walter E. Williams Wins Bradley Prize for Work on Free Markets
From the Bradley Foundation’s press release: Milwaukee, WI – Walter E. Williams, Distinguished Professor of Economics at George Mason University, is one of four recipients of the 2017 Bradley Prize. The honor recognizes individuals of…
Economic and Religious Freedom are Inseparable
Pundits and professors love to divide conservatives into camps, specifically, economic vs. religious. Like most of the dichotomies they concoct, it is a false one. At the Family Research Council last Thursday, Catholic University professor…
U.S. is Losing Economic Freedom
The Fraser Institute, a Canadian think tank, released its annual index of economic freedom for the year 2013, using data from the year 2011. The results are not encouraging for Americans. The U.S., which ranked…