Free and fair: economic freedom.

• Author: Bailey, Ronald
• Position: Citings - Real average market income indices - Brief article

Increases in overall freedom correlate with larger total market income growth--that is, growth in earned income, as opposed to government transfers, and excluding capital gains. So concluded a study that compared levels of "freedom" in the various American states, as measured by the Economic Freedom of North America index from the Fraser Institute.

The study, conducted by the Mississippi State University economist Travis Wiseman, was published by the National Bureau of Economic Research in November 2014. All things being equal, it concluded, a one-point increase on the seven-point freedom index is associated with an $8,156 increase in real average market incomes.

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