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There’s a new way to measure global freedom

There’s a new way to measure global freedom

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Alexis de Tocqueville once wrote, "He who seeks freedom for anything but freedom's self is made to be a slave." Tocqueville's observation about the French Revolution sets the tone for the Human Freedom Index (HFI), a new report that offers a comprehensive measure of freedom around the world with country-by-country comparisons. The HFI is a joint venture of  the Cato Institute, Canada's Fraser Institute and the Swiss-based Liberales Institut at the Friedrich Naumann Foundation for Freedom. The r

Alexis de Tocqueville once wrote, "He who seeks freedom for anything but freedom's self is made to be a slave." Tocqueville's observation about the French Revolution sets the tone for the Human Freedom Index (HFI), a new report that offers a comprehensive measure of freedom around the world with country-by-country comparisons. The HFI is a joint venture of  the Cato Institute, Canada's Fraser Institute and the Swiss-based Liberales Institut at the Friedrich Naumann Foundation for Freedom. The r…