Publications

• • • REPORT: Economic Freedom of the World: 2015 Annual Report

    • Slovenia ranks 111 out of 157 nations and territories included in the Economic Freedom of the World: 2015 Annual Report, which was released on September 14 by Visio Institute. The Slovene version my be found here.

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The Human Freedom Index presents the state of human freedom in the world based on a broad measure that encompasses personal, civil, and economic freedom. Human freedom is a social concept that recognizes the dignity of individuals and is defined here as negative liberty or the absence of coercive constraint. Because freedom is inherently valuable and plays a role in human progress, it is worth measuring carefully. The Human Freedom Index is a resource that can help to more objectively observe relationships between freedom and other social and economic phenomena, as well as the ways in which the various dimensions of freedom interact with one another.  

• • • We have the pleasure to present you the second print issue of 4Liberty.eu Review – a collection of articles written by experts and human rights activists from member states of the European Union and the Eastern Partnership. We believe that such an overview is the best possible way to understand how the past, the present and the future of those two projects was, is and will be shaping up.

• • • BOOK: 4Liberty.eu Review No.01

    • We have the pleasure to present you the first print issue of 4liberty.eu Review – a collection of articles written by experts and human rights activists from member states of the European Union and the Eastern Partnership. We believe that such an overview is the best possible way to understand how the past, the present and the future of those two projects was, is and will be shaping up.

• • • REPORT: Economic Freedom of the World: 2014 Annual Report Slovenia ranks 105 out of 152 nations and territories included in the Economic Freedom of the World: 2014 Annual Report, which was released on October 7 by Svetilnik. In this year's report Slovenia dropped 8 places since last years and 41 places since 2010. The main problems in Slovenia remain the size of government, rigid labour market, excessive regulation, hostility toward foreign direct investment, and weak rule of the law. 

      • press release (Slovene)

      • Economic Freedom of the World: 2014 Annual Report (English)

      • TABLES: Economic Freedom of the World: 2014 Annual Report (English)

• • BOOK: Peace, Love, & Liberty: War Is Not Inevitable

    • Atlas Network & Students for Liberty

    • War teaches people to hate. Hate our enemies. Hate our neighbors. Hate those who are different. Peace allows people to love. To change enemies into friends. To replace conflict with cooperation. To replace hatred with love and friendship. What fosters peace? The evidence is in: liberty. What undermines liberty? The evidence for that is in, too: war. The essays in this book offer evidence and arguments for peace. The writers advance peace not merely as a moral ideal or even a desirable goal, but as an eminently practical objective. <Read the rest of the book>

• • BOOK: After the Welfare State: Politicians Stole Your Future ... You Can Get It Back

    • • The welfare states of today are directly responsible for the two great economic crises that are gripping the world: the global financial crisis and the debt crisis.  -- Dr. Tom G. Palmer, editor of the book

      • This collection of essays by scholars from five nations was published by the Atlas Network, a nonprofit association of over 400 free-market think tanks, and Students for Liberty (SFL), a network of over 600 college clubs dedicated to limiting government and defending individual liberty. To download a PDF of the book or order a hardcopy click here. The Slovenes may also take out a copy of the book at one of 26 Slovenian libraries (the list of libraries is available here).

• • • • BOOK: Why Liberty: Your Life, Your Choices, Your FutureThe book offers, as an alternative to the politics of force, a philosophy of persuasion based on individual liberty and choice. It includes contributions from student leaders such as Alexander McCobin, co-founder of the Students for Liberty, and Olumayowa Okediran, founder of African Liberty Students Organization, as well as highly visible thought leaders including TV personality John Stossel. "We are seeing an explosion among college students committed to the ideas of liberty -- there's no other word to describe it," says Dr. Tom Palmer. "And today's students are not only interested in discussing these ideas, they want to do something about it. That's why this new book so strongly represents the voices of today's student leaders, some very impressive young people who have developed their own vision for freedom, one that transcends old political divides, and who know how to get organized and to do something constructive to make their vision happen."

• • BOOK: Towards a Worldwide Index of Human Freedom

• • • Ian Vasquez of the Cato Institute and Tanja Stumberger Porcnik of Svetilnik coauthored the first global index measuring human freedom consistent with a classical liberal approach, which has been published as a chapter in Towards a Worldwide Index of Human Freedom, a book published by the Fraser Institute from Canada and the Liberales Institut from Germany. The Human Freedom Index is currently under revision by the coauthors. The revised version is expected to be published in Spring 2014