A Liberty Report Card

The Economist this week celebrates its 160th anniversary by publishing a useful and thought-provoking survey on the progress of liberty. Includes a cheerful rundown of the salutary effects of liberalism, an ambitious freedom agenda for the rich countries, and a perhaps surprising warning about the biggest threat to further liberalization:

[T]he main dangers to the success of capitalism are the very people who would consider themselves its most ardent advocates: the bosses of companies, the owners of companies, and the politicians who tirelessly insist that they are ?pro-business?. At the intersection of these groups lies most of what is wrong with capitalism, and the best opportunties to make that system even more successful than it has been thus far.