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Winter, February 2008, Number 93
SOCIAL REPORTS and TRENDS:
The 2008 Index of Economic Freedom
Abbott Ferriss reviews this book which documents economic freedom by summing scores for 162 countries on ten economic indices. It shows progress since 1995, but little recent growth.
REVIEW
Dick Easterlin’s Reluctance
The volume commences with Easterlin’s intellectual autobiographical essay, The Reluctant Economist, on which the title of the book is based. In this essay, Easterlin indicates that he was not initially a reluctant economist, indeed, that he was an enthusiastic Keynesian economist in the beginning. Rather, the reluctance he references stems from the research philosophy forged at the hand of his mentor, Simon Kuznets, the third Nobel laureate in economics, namely, that insight into empirical reality is the touchstone of achievement.
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