Anthony B. Kim researches international economic issues at The Heritage Foundation, with a strong focus on economic freedom. Kim is the research manager of the Index of Economic Freedom, the flagship product of the Heritage Foundation in partnership with The Wall Street Journal. Read his research.
The World Trade Organization has released a new report that offers recommendations to world governments on how to stimulate innovation in digital economies.
Regrettably, the policy recommendations are heavy on big government intervention and ignore a fundamental principal of free-market economics: that governments should first and foremost get out of the way of competitive entrepreneurial activity.