Economics: Private and Public Choice
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Author: James D. Gwartney; Richard L. Stroup; Russell S. Sobel
Publisher: Cengage Learning US
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Explain whether the economic freedom of Country U has become more or less economically free in the past decade and what impact it will have on the future
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