Since 2015, American politics has been riven by deep splits over economic policy. The tilt toward free markets that began in the mid-1970s and lasted roughly until the election of Barack Obama is a ...

Economic freedom is one of mankind’s best ideas. It is responsible for more advances in living standards, health, knowledge, multicultural harmony, and social justice than anything else we’ve come up ...

Forbes contributors publish independent expert analyses and insights. Adam writes about state and local policy and urban economic issues. Economic freedom is vital for economic growth. If government ...

The annual Economic Report of the World was just published by the Fraser Institute and a number of other think tanks. The authors of the Report measure economic freedom on a number of dimensions, ...

In a study published earlier this year, we highlighted the fact that New Mexico was the only state in the U.S. to have lost economic freedom since 1981. We now know that it is worse than we thought.