Is Economic Freedom Worthless?

Two great forces for social change have raised standards of living, removed druggery and increased opportunities throughout the world« Those forces are freedom, including economic freedom, and its hand-maiden decentralized power® Where economic freedom has been sustained, progress toward greater leisure, shorter work weeks, more education, better diets, wider choices, greater personal comfort and other evidence or symbols of progress have been — and continue to be — the fate of an ever-increasing number of people»