The release today of the new Economic Freedom of the World: 2006 Annual Report — by Jim Gwartney, Bob Lawson, and Bill Easterly, and published jointly by the Cato Institute and the Fraser Institute — prompts me to revisit, today at Tech Central Station, one of my favorite themes: economic freedom is more fundamental than technology in raising living standards.
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