Bridwell Institute for Economic Freedom
@SMUCoxBridwell
Our mission is to study the nature, consequences, and causes of economic freedom. @SMUCox
We make economic freedom indexes.
This by @scottlincicome is a full shopping cart overflowing with all of the reasons creating government-run supermarkets is a bad idea. thedispatch.com/newsletter/cap…
“Milton and Rose inspired the index,” Professor Robert Lawson explains, “by teaming up with Fraser Institute founder Mike Walker after a spirited Mont Pellerin Society debate in 1984.” financialpost.com/opinion/milton…
Counterpoint:
The entire purpose of capitalism is to exploit the labor of the working class in order to enrich the billionaire class and I’m tired of people pretending otherwise.
Bridwell Institute professor Ryan Murphy presents, "an index of a set of consensus predictors of institutional quality..." muse.jhu.edu/pub/51/article…
No, We Weren’t Ripped Off: Debunking the Myth of Trade Victimhood | The Daily Economy thedailyeconomy.org/article/no-we-…
"... the level of income earned by the poorest 10% of the population is much higher in countries with greater economic freedom." Source: fraserinstitute.org/studies/econom…
I’m working with @SMUCoxBridwell to write model curriculum for this!
@TexasTech prof Ben Powell writes, “Instead of banning them, the U.S. should welcome immigrants and travelers who flee oppressive governments.” reason.com/2025/07/01/tru…
“Southern Methodist University’s Cox School of Business is capitalizing on its Dallas ecosystem to create what it likes to call “Y’all Street” momentum. And it’s doing it under the leadership of both a new president and a new dean.” poetsandquantsforundergrads.com/news/10-underg…
Give us a follow on LinkedIn. linkedin.com/company/bridwe…
Doug Irwin's Presidential address to the Economic History Association from Sep 2025 is now published online and open access. Great stuff! @D_A_Irwin cambridge.org/core/journals/…
When is the first economic freedom meeting? I’ll bring the lessons! Glad to help!
I was honored to chair the first-ever Presidential Commission on Religious Liberty Meeting last week. In case you missed it ⬇️ bit.ly/44dq15a
Stefani Branilović and Tibor Rutar write in the American Journal of Economics and Sociology, "The main results show that over-time increases in both neoliberalism and globalization predicted over-time increases in five different types of democracy scores." onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1111/aj…
“current levels of economic freedom in former colonies are directly related to the level of economic freedom of their colonizers.” link.springer.com/article/10.100…
Robert Lawson recently chatted with Roger Ream at @TFASorg about “Socialism Sucks: Two Economists Drink Their Way Through the Unfree World.” youtube.com/watch?v=ALXTxW…
I’m organizing a session or two on empirical state & local political economy (with an emphasis on papers using a sub-national economic freedom index) for the APEE conference in Las Vegas April 5-7, 2026 (& the Public Choice Society conference in San Antonio on Mar. 12-14.)
apee.org/call-for-paper…