The Economic Freedom Index’s institutional history remains an unwritten chapter of neoliberal policy infrastructure

Evidence

The history of the institutionalization of policy instruments in support of entrepreneurship—such as the Economic Freedom Index, developed by the Canadian Fraser Institute with funding from the Liberty Fund (Indianapolis) during the second half of the 1980s and the early 1990s—remains to be written. — Dieter Plehwe, Quinn Slobodian & Philip Mirowski (eds.), Nine Lives of Neoliberalism, 982

Categorization

• QUESTION: The Economic Freedom Index’s development history is flagged as unwritten — a genuine open research thread worth pursuing.