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So, being 11th (of 178) in the ranking of the "Economic Freedom" you list below makes the American regulatory environment "oppressive" ? From the viewpoint of
by Kurtz79 10y ago
So, being 11th (of 178) in the ranking of the "Economic Freedom" you list below makes the American regulatory environment "oppressive" ?
From the viewpoint of most countries in Europe it would be considered "very liberal".
(EDIT: Also the source you mention is clearly politically biased. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Heritage_Foundation https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Heritage_Foundation )
- icebraining 10y agoAll sources are politically biased. Some are just more honest about it.
- humanrebar 10y agoRight. See the recent news about Facebook's curation 'algorithm'.
- sammydavis 10y agoJust making a generic statement like that without qualifying it serves only to excuse that one source. Are the government of China's comments on Tibet equal in weight to Amnesty International? No. Is the Heritage Fund pushing an agenda equal in trustworthiness to an academic international ranking? Probably not. However, academic studies from two accredited institutions that don't have a particular ax to grind are probably equally credible.
- icebraining 10y ago"Heritage is biased" is the unqualified generic statement, and it serves only to reinforce the dangerous idea that some organizations are unbiased and can be blindly trusted. Of course Heritage is biased. But their Index has a well defined methodology and provides the data that informs the final score for each country; it can stand on its own, and should be criticized as such.