2009SSRN Electronic JournalOpen access

Economic Freedom and the Wealth and Well-Being of Nations

Robert A. Lawson

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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.

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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.

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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.

Key concepts: Economic freedom, Index of Economic Freedom, Political freedom, Index (typography), Politics, Degrees of freedom (physics and chemistry), Economics, Key (lock)

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