Brought to you by the Charles Koch Foundation:
Improving societal well-being by supporting the ideas of economic freedom:
* Higher Education Programs
* Grants Information
The Charles Koch Foundation continues to focus on grants and higher education programs.
The last statement is necessary because the original Charles Koch Foundation has split into the Charles Koch Foundation and the Charles Koch Institute:
Educating and training professionals on economic freedom to improve well-being of society.
* Koch Associate Program
* Koch Internship Program
* Liberty@Work
The Charles Koch Institute houses the the professional education, research and training programs formerly run by the Charles G. Koch Charitable Foundation.
Googling "economic freedom" yields a website which invites one to a tutorial:
Episode One: Economic Freedom & Quality of Life
One discovers that a number of societies are divided into two sorts:
List A:
Hong Kong
Singapore
New Zealand
Switzerland
Chile
United States
Canada
Australia
Mauritius
United Kingdom
As opposed to:
List B:
Algeria
Congo, Democratic Republic of
Burundi
Guinea-Bissau
Central African Republic
Congo, Republic of
Venezuela
Angola
Myanmar
Zimbabwe
"All across the globe, one factor stands out that separates societies that thrive from those that do not: economic freedom. This short, informative video explains economic freedom and its power to improve society."
Obviously, the A List is vastly superior to the B List in terms of:
Income, Happiness, Civil Rights, Clean Environment, Life Expectancy, Corruption, Infant Mortality, Child Labor, Unemployment
However, one wonders where is Cuba? And, where is Sweden? And one has the nagging feeling that List B contains the regions that are largely being exploited by many of the entities on List A.
And, where is the Socialist Republic of China?
Then the biggies are presented:
Property Rights
Free Trade
Sound Money (whatever that might be)
Size of Government (and government stays small...)
Size of Government is then powed by
ECONOMY in 30pt font. Then there is a bit of whining about how the US has fallen and we are told that this is brought to you by the Charles Koch Founation.
Various invitations to "join the conversation" follow so that one may feel "significant".