This paper presents the first-ever comprehensive ranking of the American states on their public policies affecting individual freedoms in the economic, social, and personal spheres. We develop and justify our ratings and aggregation procedure on explicitly normative criteria, defining individual freedom as the ability to dispose of one’s own life, liberty, and justly acquired property however one sees fit, so long as one does not coercively infringe on another individual’s ability to do the same.
5.12.2009
From the Mercatus Center @ George Mason
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No state is safe as long as the Republicans run on socialized religiosity and the Democrats on fiscal responsibility.
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