Links to help Build an Economic Freedom Dashboard

There are a couple of good benchmarks of economic freedom. The best may be the Heritage/Wall Street Journal index:

http://www.heritage.org/research/features/index/

Another, run by Canada's Fraser Institute, uses somewhat different criteria:

http://www.freetheworld.com/release.html

And Freedom House (.org not .com) is here:

http://www.freedomhouse.org/research/freeworld/2003/methodology.htm

...though they are less narrowly focused on economic issues.

I hope that's a good start. And of course there's the classic site I like to refer everyone to when working on dashboards, the Balanced Scorecard Collaborative:

http://www.bscol.com/

And lastly, a new way of managing agencies that increases accountability and results, Charter Agencies:

http://charter.iowa.gov/01_ov_overview.html

I hope to help the OLCC (Oregon Liquor Control Commission) become the first Charter Agency in Oregon.