[lapcat]

One of their policy goals is deregulation in the United States. Thus, they have a vested interest in showing that the United States has too many regulations.

And they don't even define what their categories mean. I'm willing to bet that "labor freedom" to them means "right-to-work" and no minimum wage, for example. In any case, without proper measurable definitions, they can easily manipulate their index to say whatever they want.

[mediascreen]

I think that pages 403-415 provides pretty good definitions[0]

But that's not my point. My point is only that there are aspects of a typical free market economy (by American right wing definitions) that are better represented in countries other than the US.

[0] https://www.heritage.org/index/pdf/2023/book/2023_IndexOfEco...