Dec 23, 2020
On this
week's podcast, Paul interviews Dean Stansel. Dean is a Research
Associate Professor at the Bridwell Institute for Economic Freedom
in the Cox School of Business at Southern Methodist University, but
the main topic of the discussion is the 2020 version of the
Fraser Institute's Index of Economic Freedom of North
America.
New Mexico
lags its region dramatically in the Index (coming in at 42nd
overall) even though the data in this particular Index are from
2018, the final year of Gov. Susana Martinez's term in office. Dean
and Paul discuss the components of economic freedom and why it
matters in alleviating the poverty that is all-too-common in
New Mexico.
In addition
to the document above you can explore the data over
time (and
international rankings of economic freedom) using this interactive
website.