The journal of
economic freedom

/A print and digital magazine exploring questions of economic freedom and global commerce

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/Feature /Seaver Wang

America Is Tempted by Cheap Chinese Clean Tech. It Should Drive a Harder Bargain

The second-largest auto market in the world can set the terms for Beijing while also welcoming EVs and solar from Japan, Korea, India, and Europe.

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/Feature /Ben Ramanauskas

Current Trade Policy Is Still Fighting the Last War

/Feature /Jeffrey Mason

Special Economic Zones Mostly Fail The Ones That Don't Change Everything

/Feature /Spencer Schneier

Does Europe Want Europe?

/Feature /Michael Hill

On Party Business

/Feature /Caleb Petitt

America's Maritime Policy Is Fighting the Wrong War

Keep a step ahead on
matters of global commerce.

/Dispatch /Logan Jackonis

Dispatches from the Network

We sat down with our friends in Copenhagen, Santiago, Madrid, and Texas to learn what they see on the ground in the ever-changing world of international commerce.

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Editor’s Pick

/Dispatch /Logan Jackonis

Dispatches from the Network

/Insights /Ravi Joseph

Choose Your Market, Choose Your Rules

/Q&A /Shreeda Segan

Daivik Goel on the Fintech Gap No One Competes For

"The civilization that gave us Roman law, the commenda, the corporation, and the lex mercatoria did not build its prosperity by asking permission.

It built it by building infrastructure that made permission unnecessary."