Economic Freedom and the Wealth and Well-Being of Nations

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Description: In this essay, Lawson describes the Economic Freedom of the World (EFW) project that quantifies the connections between economic freedom, political freedom, and economic performance by capturing and distilling the key elements of economic freedom within a single index.
Robert A. Lawson
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