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 ...

RALEIGH — North Carolina has one of the freest economies on the continent — a fact that augers well for the future of our state and its (now) 11 million residents. That’s one of the findings of the ...

New Delhi, Feb 10: The Heritage Institute's Index of Economic Freedom has classified Pakistan as a “repressed” economy, ...

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 ...

North Carolina ranked seventh in the nation for economic freedom, according to a new report from the Fraser Institute. The state's ranking has improved from 19th in 2011 due to reductions in taxes, ...

Reporters Without Borders (RSF) on Friday announced that the economic indicator in its 2025 World Press Freedom Index has fallen to an unprecedented critical low, prompting the global state of press ...

The good news is that the first 20 years of the millennium saw overall increases in economic freedom around the world—with continuous improvement through the second decade. The bad news is that not ...

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

The Heritage Institute's Index of Economic Freedom measures 12 economic freedoms: namely, property rights, government integrity, judicial effectiveness, tax burden, government spending, fiscal health, ...