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 | | Freedom House and Central Intelligence Agency contributed vital analyses of various socio-economic indicators on the countries included in the index. | | | IN its survey of press freedom in 2005, Freedom House gave the Philippines a freedom index of 35, meaning it is "partly free." Factors taken into consideration... | | | published by Freedom House, China is one of the 49 nations among the world& 192 countries that is "not free." The Worldwide Press Freedom Index 2005 published... |
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http://www.freedom-pa.get2006.com/freedom-house-index.htm
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| | Software Patents - League for Programming Freedom |
| | Software Useright: Solving Inconsistencies of Software Patents : an overview by Jean-Paul Smets of "the principles, the economic impact and the potential juridical contradictions of patents and especially software related patents." Also by Smets: Intellectual Property Law in a Global Economy : the "hidden patent agenda of the European Commission." | | | Software Developer Survey : a survey from October 1994 shows that many software developers are unhappy with the existing patent law, and want to see it changed. | | | Aircraft manufacturer McDonnell Douglas has received a patent for a software technique called "windowing" that is used to fix computer code and has handed the patent over to the technique's inventor [Bruce Dickens]. |
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http://lpf.ai.mit.edu/Patents/patents.html
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| | Welcome to Freedom House |
| | In addition to operational support, duties include the coordination of educational classes along with open access for computer usage for Freedom Houses diverse community. | | | Before joining the staff of Freedom House, Marvin spent three years as a volunteer and friend of the organization assisting with a variety of projects. | | | Denise Leader, is a resident of Dorchester, MA and joined the Freedom House staff in March 2003. |
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http://www.freedomhouse.com/aboutus/staff.html
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| | E. Anthony Wayne, "The MCA Promotes Sound Economic Policies," Economic Perspectives, March 2003 |
| | There are few examples of long-term economic development by countries with persistent high inflation while there are many examples of economies falling prey to hyperinflation. | | | Unfortunately, domestic economic resources and capital have all too often been squandered, sometimes by conflict, but also by economic policies that do not give individual families and firms the proper incentives to save and invest in their future, and to innovate and engage in productive enterprise. | | | Wayne says economic freedom created by these policies is essential for mobilizing domestic assets and encouraging entrepreneurship, as well as boosting trade and attracting foreign investment. |
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http://usinfo.state.gov/journals/ites/0303/ijee/wayne.htm
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| | Neural.it: CFP2000, The Tenth Annual Conference on Computers, Freedom and Privacy. |
| | But at the end of the day they did not have their solution and it shouldn't surprise us, because the DNS problem is not a technical problem it is an economic, legal and social one. | | | Ten years ago computers were used only by a small number of technology hobbyists and scientists. | | | The idea of liberty for many of these computer users is not the same as the liberty that is defined by traditional law; instead it is the liberty to create absolutely anything they want within an almost infinitely plastic, borderless cyberspace, and without fear. |
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http://www.neural.it/english/cfp2000.htm
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| | INDEX OF ECONOMIC FREEDOM ADVERTISING, MARKETING AND INFORMATION |
| | The Index of Economic Freedom is an annual report published by The ''Wall_Street_Journal'' and the Heritage_Foundation. | | | An overview of research can be found here http://www.ratioinstitutet.nu/pdf/wp/nb_efi.pdf, including studies showing that more economic freedom is the cause of beneficial effects. | | | For such critics, the list is simply a promotional tool for laissez-faire policy, rather than a meaningful index of economically free countries. |
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http://adscontractors.com/Index_of_Economic_Freedom
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| | CFP 2005>PANOPTICON'05 |
| | This is full day workshop on aspects of everyday privacy and freedom which are steadily diminishing because of technology and policy choices, particularly in the “Culture of Security” which has existed since 911. | | | Economic considerations are critical to the protection of privacy: without proper incentives, sophisticated privacy enhancing technologies stay unused and well-meaning laws remain ineffective. | | | It is particularly relevant that in the host site for CFP, an almost entirely paper-based system has produced an uncertain outcome in the gubernatorial race and a near total lack of voter confidence in the process. |
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http://www.cfp2005.org/Program.html
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| | Townhall.com :: Columns :: Economic Policies are Moral Issues by Rebecca Hagelin - Jan 7, 2005 |
| | This heart-stopping quote is from an op-ed by Dr. Ed Feulner, president of The Heritage Foundation, written upon the release this week of the 11th edition of The Index of Economic Freedom produced jointly by The Heritage Foundation and The Wall Street Journal. | | | Could it be that while many in the movement understand the importance of securing moral positions on social issues, we have failed to understand that economic principles are also "values"? | | | To do otherwise is to doom our children to a future of government dependency and economic enslavement and there's nothing moral about that. |
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http://www.townhall.com/columnists/rebeccahagelin/rh20050107.shtml
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| | The Freedom of Indices |
| | The Heritage Foundation and the Wall Street Journal are the joint publishers of the 2002 edition of the much-vaunted "Index of Economic Freedom". | | | The annual publication purports to measure and compare the level of economic freedoms in 155 countries. | | | Though their indicators often influence the pecuniary fate of developing countries, they are open to little scrutiny and criticism. |
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http://samvak.tripod.com/brief-index01.html
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| | oreilly.com -- Online Catalog: Free as in Freedom |
| | Free as in Freedom interweaves biographical snapshots of GNU project founder Richard Stallman with the political, social and economic history of the free software movement. | | | Register your book to get email notification of new editions, special offers, and more. | | | It examines Stallman's unique personality and how that personality has been at turns a driving force and a drawback in terms of the movement's overall success. |
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http://www.oreilly.com/catalog/freedom
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| | The World |
| | Freedom House (and here and here) is my preferred source of human rights country reports. | | | There is a clear correlation between political freedom and prosperity, just as there is between economic freedom and prosperity. | | | Of the 48 high-income countries, 80 percent of them rank as "Free" on political freedom. |
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http://markhumphrys.com/world.html
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| | Hexapedia - Freedom House |
| | Freedom House says of itself that it "has vigorously opposed dictatorships in Central America and Chile, apartheid in South Africa, the suppression of the Prague Spring, the Soviet invasion of Afghanistan, genocide in Bosnia and Rwanda, and the brutal violation of human rights in Cuba, Burma, China, and Iraq. | | | Freedom House produces reports on the democracy and freedom in the government of countries around the world, and produces annual scores representing what it judges of countries' political and civil liberties, on a scale from 1 (best) to 7 (worst). | | | Freedom House is funded by a number of foundations, including Lynde and Harry Bradley Foundation, the Sarah Scaife Foundation and the Soros Foundations. |
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http://www.hexafind.com/encyclopedia/Freedom_House
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| | freedomhouse.org: Home |
| | Through a vast array of international programs and publications, Freedom House is working to advance the remarkable worldwide expansion of political and economic freedom. | | | In far too many places around the world, however, women remain victims of serious human rights abuses, Freedom House said today. | | | Freedom House, a non-profit, nonpartisan organization, is a clear voice for democracy and freedom around the world. |
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http://www.freedomhouse.org
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| | The World |
| | Freedom House (and here and here) is my preferred source of human rights country reports. | | | There is a clear correlation between political freedom and prosperity, just as there is between economic freedom and prosperity. | | | Western values - reason, science, democracy, free speech, freedom of religion, free press, a secular state, private property, free enterprise, and so on - are not the property of one racial group (as America itself shows). |
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http://markhumphrys.com/world.html
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| | Fraser Institute - Information Centre - Economic Freedom |
| | Economic freedom is built upon personal choice, voluntary exchange, the right to keep what you earn, and the security of your property rights. | | | The Economic Freedom Network, is made up of public policy institutes from around the world who are dedicated to the study and advancement of economic freedom. | | | The annual Economic Freedom of the World Report, published by The Fraser Institute in conjunction with members of the Economic Freedom Network, ranks countries on their level of economic freedom. |
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http://www.fraserinstitute.ca/economicfreedom/index.asp?snav=ef
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| | Fraser Institute - Information Centre - Economic Freedom |
| | Economic freedom is built upon personal choice, voluntary exchange, the right to keep what you earn, and the security of your property rights. | | | The Economic Freedom Network, is made up of public policy institutes from around the world who are dedicated to the study and advancement of economic freedom. | | | The annual Economic Freedom of the World Report, published by The Fraser Institute in conjunction with members of the Economic Freedom Network, ranks countries on their level of economic freedom. |
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http://www.fraserinstitute.ca/economicfreedom/index.asp?snav=ef
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| | The Smith Center: Milton Friedman's lecture |
| | In Chile, the drive for political freedom, that was generated by ecoriomic freedom and the resulting economic success, ultimately resulted in a referendum that introduced political democracy. | | | Similarly, at the very time officials of the British Colonial Office were imposing economic freedom on Hong Kong, at home in Britain a socialist government was imposing socialism on Britain. | | | The example that persuaded me that the relationship was less simple than the one I had sketched in Capitalism and Freedom is Hong Kong as it developed in the 1950s and especially as it has developed in the period since CapitalismandFreedomwaswritten. |
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http://www.sbe.csuhayward.edu/~sbesc/frlect.html
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| | Fraser Institute - Information Centre - Economic Freedom |
| | Economic freedom is built upon personal choice, voluntary exchange, the right to keep what you earn, and the security of your property rights. | | | The Economic Freedom Network, is made up of public policy institutes from around the world who are dedicated to the study and advancement of economic freedom. | | | The annual Economic Freedom of the World Report, published by The Fraser Institute in conjunction with members of the Economic Freedom Network, ranks countries on their level of economic freedom. |
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http://www.fraserinstitute.ca/economicfreedom/index.asp?snav=ef
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| | PRI's U.S. Economic Freedom Index: 2004 - Executive Summary |
| | Economic freedom is the right of individuals to pursue their interests through voluntary exchange of private property under a rule of law. | | | In a nutshell, economic freedom is the right of an individual to keep what he earns, produce what he wants, and compete in product and labor markets of his choosing, subject to the restriction that he cannot use force or fraud to further his interests. | | | Economic freedom expands the opportunities for individuals to use their knowledge and resources to their best advantage and to keep the fruits of their labor for personal consumption and future productive investment. |
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http://www.pacificresearch.org/pub/sab/entrep/2004/econ_freedom/00_summary.html
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| | PRI's U.S. Economic Freedom Index: 2004 - Executive Summary |
| | Economic freedom is the right of individuals to pursue their interests through voluntary exchange of private property under a rule of law. | | | In a nutshell, economic freedom is the right of an individual to keep what he earns, produce what he wants, and compete in product and labor markets of his choosing, subject to the restriction that he cannot use force or fraud to further his interests. | | | Economic freedom expands the opportunities for individuals to use their knowledge and resources to their best advantage and to keep the fruits of their labor for personal consumption and future productive investment. |
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http://www.pacificresearch.org/pub/sab/entrep/2004/econ_freedom/00_summary.html
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| | PRI's U.S. Economic Freedom Index: 2004 - Executive Summary |
| | Economic freedom is the right of individuals to pursue their interests through voluntary exchange of private property under a rule of law. | | | In a nutshell, economic freedom is the right of an individual to keep what he earns, produce what he wants, and compete in product and labor markets of his choosing, subject to the restriction that he cannot use force or fraud to further his interests. | | | Economic freedom expands the opportunities for individuals to use their knowledge and resources to their best advantage and to keep the fruits of their labor for personal consumption and future productive investment. |
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http://www.pacificresearch.org/pub/sab/entrep/2004/econ_freedom/00_summary.html
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| | Economic Freedom Watch launch |
| | Proper economic freedom requires objective legal protection of the rights – and enforcement of the obligations – that derive from contracts, as well as the equality of all contracting parties before the law. | | | For Friedman, economic freedom is both as an essential component of overall freedom and the condition, which promotes the practical means to ensure political and civic freedom. | | | Globalisation is now making economic freedom again an urgent task of government. |
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http://www.cis.org.au/events/CISlectures/occasional/EFW011101.htm
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| | Index of Economic Freedom 2005 |
| | To this end, the decision was made to establish a set of objective economic criteria that, since the inaugural 1995 edition, have been used to study and grade various countries for the annual publication of the Index of Economic Freedom. | | | The idea of producing a userfriendly “index of economic freedom” as a tool for policymakers and investors was first discussed at The Heritage Foundation in the late 1980s. | | | Moreover, although there are many theories about the origins and causes of economic development, the findings of this study are straightforward: The countries with the most economic freedom also have higher rates of long-term economic growth and are more prosperous than are those with less economic freedom. |
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http://www.heritage.org/research/features/index
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| | 1998 Index of Economic Freedom |
| | Each economy in the index has been given an overall economic freedom score, based on the average of the 10 individual factor scores. | | | We can agree, however, with the final conclusion of the authors: countries with more economic freedom also have higher rates of economic growth and are more prosperous than those with less economic freedom. | | | The four broad rankings of economic freedom are: |
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http://www.worldbank.org/transitionnewsletter/dec97/boxpg12.htm
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| | Index of Economic Freedom 2005 |
| | To this end, the decision was made to establish a set of objective economic criteria that, since the inaugural 1995 edition, have been used to study and grade various countries for the annual publication of the Index of Economic Freedom. | | | The idea of producing a userfriendly “index of economic freedom” as a tool for policymakers and investors was first discussed at The Heritage Foundation in the late 1980s. | | | The Index, however, is more than just a dataset based on empirical study; it is a careful theoretical analysis of the factors that most influence the institutional setting of economic growth. |
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http://www.heritage.org/research/features/index
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| | Political Calculations: US vs Canada: Economic Freedom |
| | The measure of economic freedom is important since it functions as an indicator of the economic growth potential in a country or region. | | | On the other hand, if a province increases economic freedom, for example by reducing taxes, and its economy grows, the result is an increased outflow of government revenues to other jurisdictions and a heavier tax burden, given the progressivity of Canadian taxes, which in turn suppresses increases in economic freedom and economic growth. | | | The greater the reduction in economic freedom, the greater the negative impact on the economy and the greater the amount of money the province will receive from the federal government. |
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http://politicalcalculations.blogspot.com/2005/07/us-vs-canada-economic-freedom.html
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| | Economic Freedom of the World |
| | Economic Freedom of the World measures the degree to which the policies and institutions of countries are supportive of economic freedom. | | | The first Economic Freedom of the World Report, published in 1996, was the result of a decade of research by a team which included several Nobel Laureates and over 60 other leading scholars in a broad range of fields, from economics to political science, and from law to philosophy. | | | The impact of economic freedom on whether states fight or have a military dispute is highly significant while democracy is not a statistically significant predictor of conflict. |
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http://www.cato.org/economicfreedom
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| | So What! » Economic Freedom and Prosperity |
| | See the ‘Economic Freedom and Per Capita Income’ from the (2005 Index of Economic Freedom), or compare the ‘Distribution Of Economic Freedom’ map (from the 2005 Index of Economic Freedom) to the ‘Infant Mortality Rate’ and the ‘Life Expectancy At Birth’ maps (of the World Bank). | | | Economic freedom is not only an indispensable part of a truly open and free society. | | | To be fair, I have to admit that the causes of the lack of economic freedom are not always local. |
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http://blogs.hiveworks.com/ges/archives/2005/04/18/39
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| | freedom.htm |
| | Economic freedom is also positively correlated with low poverty rates, superior health outcomes, literacy, good nutrition, low levels of child labour, civil and political freedoms, superior rankings on the United Nations Human Development Index, and low levels of corruption along with other positive results. | | | Economic Freedom of the World: 1975-1995 is the product of 10 years' work involving 61 researchers in 11 countries, including many of the world's leading economists. | | | Hong Kong is the most economically free jurisdiction in the world according to the Economic Freedom of the World: 2001 Annual Report. |
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http://www.hku.hk/hkcer/freedom.htm
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| | Ed Feulner on the Heritage Foundation's Index of Economic Freedom on NRO Financial |
| | This year, South Korea moved up six spots in the Heritage index to 46th place worldwide (out of 155 countries graded) by increasing its levels of economic freedom. | | | But any improvement means that countries are moving toward higher levels of economic freedom, and those with more economic freedom have higher living standards. | | | I'm talking about economic freedom — or how much liberty people worldwide have when it comes to making decisions about their own money. |
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http://www.nationalreview.com/nrof_comment/feulner200401150915.asp
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