The left is trying to refashion how policymakers and private-sector leaders understand their roles by insisting that their actions must have an “environmental, social, and governance” focus. This ...

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. The positive relationship between economic freedom and ...

As people across the nation and indeed across the globe continue to struggle financially due to inflation, lingering coronavirus outbreaks and the effects of the Russian war on Ukraine, we could all ...

Economic freedom is a vital component of a prosperous society. Defined as the ability to make economic decisions without undue government influence, people in free societies can work, transact, and ...

There is a reason why economic freedom also results in a better life for all, and Austrian economists know that better than anyone else.

For those who confuse correlation with causation, a friend would joke that playing basketball in the NBA makes you taller. Previous articles have shown that greater economic freedom correlates with ...

The U.S. has fallen again in a recent index of global economic freedom that noted economic freedom worldwide has declined to its lowest point in two decades. The Heritage Foundation's 2023 Index of ...

Fall view from Ragged Mountain of Mt. Kearsarge in the distance, with fall foliage and granite ledges in Andover, New Hampshire. New Hampshire ranks first in the most recent edition of the Fraser ...

Anthony Kim is a research fellow in economic freedom, editor of the Index of Economic Freedom, and manager of global engagement in the Margaret Thatcher Center for Freedom at The Heritage Foundation.

Small African countries are growing faster than their larger peers when it comes to being more economically free, a new report shows. ‘Economic Freedom of the World: 2021’, a report published by Free ...