Fred McMahon is Dr. Michael A. Walker Research Chair in Economic Freedom at Fraser Institute in Vancouver, Canada. He manages the Economic Freedom of the World Network, an alliance of think tanks in nearly one hundred nations and territories. The network produces the Economic Freedom of the World Report, an annual study that ranks nations on economic liberty. He is coauthor of Economic Freedom of the Arab World and Economic Freedom of North America. He has worked on economic reform programs in more than a dozen nations and has authored several books and many articles on economic reform, both academic and in the popular media. His book Looking the Gift Horse in the Mouth, about damaging government intervention and spending, won the Sir Antony Fisher Memorial Award.

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