What are some important freedoms that traditional freedom indices (Freedom House, Heritage Economic Freedom, etc) are missing?

(note: I *don't* mean in the "real freedom means high speed trains, being safe and having public healthcare" direction, I mean like actual freedoms, but ones that usual indices neglect)

I'll start the bidding with:

* Land use / zoning restrictions
* What percent of the world population can enter the country without a visa

Freedom of entry is an interesting one, bc most of these measures are looking at these freedoms from the perspective of the citizens who are actually under the given regime... whereas this one looks at it moreso from the perspective of non-citizens not subject to the regime.

How are you thinking about this?

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As for freedom to enter, I'd argue that freedom of foreigners to enter is also a boost to freedom of locals to interact with foreigners.

Agreed, this is an interesting questioning of a root assumption.

My experience of working with these "freedom" measures back when I did research (and it's been 10 years) was that the assumed "user" was the citizen. It makes some sense, but reframing it for other perspectives is also quite intriguing!

It does depend on who the target audience for indices is! I see three options:

* People inside the target countries trying to make change
* Some "international community" trying to pressure countries to change
* An individual deciding where to base themselves, their family or their business

freedom to enter another's country, ya whatever let's discuss. freedom to enter his wallet. NOO!