Economic Freedom of The World 2000

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James Gwartney is a Professor of Economics at the DeVoe L. Moore Center, Florida State University. He is currently serving a two-year term as Chief Economist with the Joint Economic Committee (JEC) of the United States Congress. He has a doctoral degree in economics from the University of Washing-ton. Along with Richard Stroup and Russell Sobel, he is the author of Economics: Private and Public ChoiceAmerican Economic Review, Journal of Political Economy, Industrial and Labor Relations Review, Cato Journal, and Southern Economic Journal.

Professor Gwartney has been involved in this project since the early 1990s. Most of his work on this publication was prior to his appointment to the JEC. The views expressed in this publication represent those of the authors. They do not necessarily represent those of the JEC, its Chairman, Vice-Chairman, or any member of the Committee.

Robert Lawson is an Associate Professor of Economics at Capital University in Columbus, Ohio; he taught previously at Shawnee State University. He earned his B.S. from the Honors Tutorial College at Ohio University in 1988 and his M.S. (1991) and Ph.D. (1992) from Florida State University. He has published articles in several journals, including Public Choice, the Journal of Labor Research, and the Journal of Public Finance and Public Choice. Professor Lawson has written extensively on public policy issues such as welfare reform, Medicaid, tax policy, and prevailing wage regulations. He also serves as the Director of Fiscal Policy Studies for the Buckeye Institute for Public Policy Solutions in Dayton, Ohio.

Dexter Samida is a Research Economist at The Fraser Institute. He majored in economics at the Uni-versity of Saskatchewan, from which he received his B.Comm. (high honours) with Great Distinction in 1997. He obtained his M.A. in Economics from the University of Toronto in 1998. In the summer of 1997, he worked as an intern at The Fraser Institute, where he did research on taxation in Canada. He recently published A Hand Out Instead of a Hand Up: Where Foreign Aid Fails (Public Policy Sources 30, The Fraser Institute) and was co-author of Provincial Economic Freedom in Canada 1981-1998 (Fraser Institute Critical Issues Bulletin). He has written articles on economic freedom and poverty, provincial economic freedom, foreign aid, international trade, and consumerism. Some of his work has appeared in national newspapers such as the National Post, as well as in regional papers, such as the Vancouver Province. Mr Samida is a native of rural Saskatchewan.

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