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Dear FLOW Members, Recent events in the financial, banking, and insurance industry frustrate our sense of justice and goodness because it is certain that, no matter what else happens, some individuals who have made harmful... More »
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Dear FLOW, I’ve just returned from two weeks in Senegal, a beautiful land with a tolerant Islamic culture, mostly Sufi, a very strong work ethic, an indigenous entrepreneurial tradition, and an HIV/AIDS rate that is... More »
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An excellent NYT column by Tyler Cowan on the recent financial meltdown shows that deregulation is not at all the cause of the recent meltdown: Still, the Bush administration’s many critiques of regulation are belied... More »
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An upcoming talk at Stanford; a marvelous validation of the core concerns of our Accelerating Women Entrepreneurs (AWE) program as well as all the focus on De Soto , North , the Doing Business rankings... More »
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I recently calculated that the 122 nations ranked by Fraser Index averaged a rate of growth of 1.7% from 2000-2005. The twenty nations that had the highest gains in economic freedom from 1995-2005 averaged a... More »
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When an unskilled Mexican laborer crosses the border from Mexico into the U.S., a day's worth of his or her hard work increases by a power of 10 - instead of receiving $6 for a... More »
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After War The Political Economy of Exporting Democracy Christopher Coyne May 25, 2007 Summary Forthcoming from Stanford University Press, November 2007 Why does liberal democracy take hold in some countries but not in others?... More »
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A portion of the evidence that economic freedom is the most highly leveraged means of improving life for billions of people. From the Fraser Institute Economic Freedom of the World Report, 2007:
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I met Oscar Chiquitó Sabán over the weekend, a Guatemalen who is in the U.S. on a Fulbright scholarship. Oscar was raised in a one-room house made of cornstalks with his parents and four siblings. ... More »
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In response to Anthony's query on taxes on yesterday's post: The Fraser Index aggregates data in five categories: 1. Size of Government: Expenditures, Taxes, and Enterprises 2. Legal Structure and Security of Property... More »
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