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		tonyedgecombe on June 6, 2021 \| parent \| context \| favorite \| on: G7: Rich nations back deal to tax multinationals The Heritage Foundation is an American conservative think tank[1]. I think I'll take what they have to say with a pinch of salt. [1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Heritage_Foundation Anyway we aren't really talking about removing peoples economic freedoms, you can have a strong economy whilst retaining workers rights, social support and environmental controls. It's the poorest parts of the world that don't have a handle on this stuff.

alentist on June 8, 2021 [–]

Are you referring to the Index of Economic Freedom in the second paper?

1. The data is freely available and you can check the methodology yourself: https://www.heritage.org/index/pdf/2016/book/methodology.pdf

2. "We check the robustness of our results using alternative freedom indices."

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