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Ángel Carrión-Tavárez

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Economic Freedom of North America 2023

Economic Freedom of North America 2023 is the nineteenth edition of the Fraser Institute’s annual report. This year it measures the extent to which—in 2021, the year with the most recent available comprehensive data—the policies of North American jurisdictions were supportive of economic freedom, the ability of individuals to act in the economic sphere free of undue restrictions.

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Alberto Gómez Hernández

Luis
Lights and Shadows of the Puerto Rican Business Environment

The existence of a business-friendly environment that facilitates investment, entrepreneurship, and business growth is of utmost importance for the economic development of any country. This becomes more relevant today, as companies, entrepreneurs, and productive factors—always scarce—can relocate to places where conditions are more favorable, creating a status quo in which countries constantly compete—at both regional and global scales—to attract investment and talent.

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Juan Lara

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Challenges to Classical Liberalism

Free-market economy is an economic system with proven effectiveness in coordinating the efficient use of a society’s resources and promoting productive innovation but, like any human institution, it faces challenges that can hinder its proper operation and warp its results. An array of improper, and even illegal, behaviors divert the legitimate business goal of making profits toward a pursuit of profit that is disconnected from productive activity and focused on the exploitation of advantages and privileges. These practices include rent-seeking, clientelism, nepotism, cronyism, and—in extreme cases—corruption.

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Justin T. Callais

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Economic Freedom and Social Mobility: What Does It Mean for Puerto Rico?

Social and income mobility has become a hot topic among social scientists and policymakers. Few, though, have examined the role of economic freedom in explaining differences in mobility. I summarize my work showing that economic freedom has a strong impact on improving mobility.

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Ojel L. Rodríguez Burgos

Nicole
The Role of Government and the free Market

The free-market system allows the individual to interact freely for the satisfaction of his conception of the good life within the rule of law. The individual as an agent is the main actor within the market; however, private, or public businesses and the State itself also figure as actors in the free market. In this article, we present the three ways in which the State acts in the free market.

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Articles and OpEd

Before leaving to enjoy their long and well-deserved vacations, some legislators are pushing a pilot plan to reduce the workday in government agencies -and later in private enterprise- to 32 hours per week, with the same salary and benefits.

Banquet in Sight: Every Friday Off

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Steven Horwitz
Hayek and Freedom

A few years ago, I had the opportunity to look through a transcription of a set of note cards that F. A. Hayek kept through the latter years of his life. It was fascinating to see how he wrote for himself and to get glimpses of ideas that would later be more fully fleshed out. One theme that emerges in those cards, and that has been pervasive over Hayek’s career, is his understanding of freedom. It is a nuanced and sophisticated conception of human freedom that differentiates itself from the ways the term is used by the left and the right. Classical liberals should understand Hayek’s view of freedom, and its connection to tradition and the coordinating role of institutions, to avoid the problems that confront other conceptions of freedom.

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La promesa del individualismo
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Erec Smith
The Promise of Individualism

There is no such thing as a panacea; few things are actual cure‐​alls in themselves, especially when it pertains to social issues. However, the closest thing to a panacea for contemporary social injustice—both actual and perceived—is the concept of individualism. It is the closest foil to what is, arguably, the most dangerous aspect of critical social justice activism: race fatalism, i.e., the idea that especially minoritized groups have no locus of control and are at the mercy of their hegemonic oppressors.

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Manuel Hinds
Lula, Rousseff and narratives

In a few years, the populists of the Sao Paulo Forum used well-wrought tales to resurrect the greatest failure of a power system, communism, in a triumphant march to take over Latin America. Now he is using his "narrative" powers to help Putin, a classic fascist, to re-integrate fascism with the extreme left and right in the region. And he, convicted of corruption, free on procedural grounds, takes great pride in his ability to put together narratives that hide reality.

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Jorge L. Rodríguez
Congress Can Help Puerto Rico Escape the Food Stamp Poverty Trap

Each year, the U.S. Congress allocates over $400 million for food assistance to support more than 250,000 residents of Puerto Rico who are able-bodied adults without dependents, and are between the ages of 18 and 54. Notably, this financial assistance does not come with a work obligation. Congress does not apply this approach to any of the 50 states, the District of Columbia, or even to Guam and the U.S. Virgin Islands. Beneficiaries of nutritional assistance in these jurisdictions are under the Supplemental Nutritional Assistance Program (SNAP), which includes a work requirement. It's time to bring Puerto Rico into the same program.

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Presentation of the public policy report on occupational licenses

Jorge L. Rodríguez participated in the program ¡Puerto Rico Se Puede! with Ada Norah Henríquez to discuss the public policy report on occupational licenses in Puerto Rico.

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CCPR – Cámara Activa

Visit to the Congress: From NAP to SNAP

Ramón Pérez Blanco, president of the Puerto Rico Chamber of Commerce (PRCC), talks with Jorge L. Rodríguez about the recent visit to the U.S. Congress and the details of the presentation of the report “From NAP to SNAP: A Bridge to Economic Freedom for the residents of Puerto Rico”.

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Publication and Presentation of the Occupational Licensing Report

This past quarter, we published the occupational licensing public policy report and met with leaders of the executive and legislature to present it to them. In addition, we launched the educational essay "Challenges to Classical Liberalism". You will also see the most-read events, news, and articles on our digital platforms.

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Ease of doing business report published

This past quarter we presented the Doing Business North America 2022 report and the educational essay “The Role of Government and the Free Market”. Also, you can see the events, news and our most read articles in our digital platforms.

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Federal Judge hands free-speech victory to retired engineer.

Court holds that state officials violated the First Amendment when they ordered retired engineer Wayne Nutt to stop talking about math in public.

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