![“Economic Freedom” Rankings Don’t Tell Us Anything About Capitalism “Economic Freedom” Rankings Don’t Tell Us Anything About Capitalism](https://realnews.today/media/economicfreedomfigure-310x168.png)
Conservatives and libertarians love to cite studies ranking different countries’ levels of “economic freedom” as evidence for the glories of capitalism. There’s just one problem: the rankings are nonsense.
Conservatives and libertarians love to cite studies ranking different countries’ levels of “economic freedom” as evidence for the glories of capitalism. There’s just one problem: the rankings are nonsense.