Towards a Worldwide Index of Human Freedom

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54 • Towards a Worldwide Index of Human Freedom Stark, Rodney (2005). The Victory of Reason: How Christianity Led to Freedom, Capitalism, and Western Success. Random House. Straumann, Benjamin (2009). Is modern liberty ancient? Roman remedies and natural rights in Hugo Grotius’ early works on natural law. Law and History Review 27(1) (Spring): 55-85. Time (1953, July 13). The seven freedoms. Time. , as of October 31, 2011. United Nations (1948). The Universal Declaration of Human Rights. United Nations. , as of October 31, 2011. United Nations (1991). Human Development Report. pp. 18-21. New York: United Nations. United Nations Development Program (2000). Human Development Report: Human Rights and Human Development. United Nations. United States Constitution (1787). US Constitution Online web page. , as of October 31, 2011. Walker, Michael A (2010). A Compact Statement of a Cost-based Theory of Rights and Freedom: Implications for Classifying and Measuring Rights. In Fred McMahon (ed.), Towards a Worldwide Index of Human Freedom (Fraser Institute): 137–52. Zakaria, Fareed (2003). The Future of Freedom: Illiberal Democracy at Home and Abroad. Norton. Fraser Institute ©2012 • www.fraserinstitute.org • www.freetheworld.com
An Index of Freedom in the World Ian Vásquez and Tanja Štumberger* chapter three Using available data, we have created an index that we believe is a reasonable, early attempt at measuring freedom around the world. As a result of the Fraser Institute’s decades-long work to define and measure economic freedom, a tremendous amount of progress has been made in understanding the concept of economic freedom and its contribution to human well-being.1 Building on that work, this paper attempts to devise a broader measure of human liberty that also includes indicators of civil and other liberties. No such index currently exists, at least not one that is comprehensive and consistent with a classical liberal perspective. The purpose for engaging in this exercise is to more carefully explore what we mean by freedom, and to better understand its relationship to any number of social and economic phenomena. Just as important, this research could improve our appreciation of the way in which various freedoms—economic, civil, and political—relate to one another. To the extent possible, we will be able to observe those relationships through time, even if at first the time frame is limited. We are under no illusion that this is an ideal index of what it purports to measure (league tables rarely are), but it helps us get closer to our goal. Our hope is that the current paper will stimulate a more focused discussion about the suitability of the data and about a sensible approach to their use. The paper is organized as follows: a description of the concept measured and methodology; a justification and description of the data used; results and preliminary findings. * Ian Vásquez is director of the Center for Global Liberty and Prosperity at the Cato Institute. Tanja Štumberger is a senior fellow at the Atlas Economic Research Foundation. 1 The culmination of that work is the annual Economic Freedom of the World report published by the Fraser Institute and co-authored by James Gwartney and Robert Lawson (and now also by Joshua Hall); the report has spawned an extensive research literature. For a more comprehensive view on the economic freedom research, see . www.freetheworld.com • www.fraserinstitute.org • Fraser Institute ©2012
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