IN HIS COMMENT ON THE ECONOMIC FREEDOM SURVEY ARTICLE we wrote with Susanna Lundström (De Haan et al. 2006), Lawson (2006) criticizes five elements of our article: 1.Our use of the term “zealots.†2.Our remarks on the role of government in the construction of the economic freedom...

COLE AND LAWSON (2007) STATE THAT “EQUATION (1) IS Lawson’s preferred specification, while de Haan et al. favor Equation (4).†That is not an appropriate summary of our position, however. We do not have a preference for Equation (4). In our papers on the relationship between...