Ian Vásquez is vice president for international studies at the Cato Institute and director of its Center for Global Liberty and Prosperity. He is the coauthor of the Human Freedom Index and a weekly columnist at El Comercio (Peru). His articles have appeared in newspapers throughout the United States and Latin America. Matthew D. Mitchell, PhD, is a senior fellow in the Centre for Human Freedom at the Fraser Institute and coauthor of the Human Freedom Index. His writing and research focus on economic freedom, public choice economics, and the economics of government favoritism. He has advised federal, state, and local government policymakers in the United States on both fiscal and regulatory policy.