Hi all,
I used a really interesting economic freedom index in an international management class that I took last semester at SVSU that I wanted to share with you. It’s an interactive heat map used to compare countries based on different freedoms such as trade freedom, freedom from corruption, labor freedom, and many more. It also shows an overall economic freedom score. All these different ratings are based on a 100 point scale and are color coded based on how high or low their rating is. You can filter by each type of rating or by the overall score. You can look at individual countries, certain parts of the world, or the whole world. I’ve used this as resource quite a bit in other classes and thought it might be useful to other students. Since Jim was showing a country comparison based on per capita GDP, I thought this was another interesting tool for comparing countries to one another for those interested in that kind of thing. Let me know what you all think of it please!
Here is the link: http://www.heritage.org/index/heatmap
Enjoy! 