October 10, 2013 5:41PM # Public TV to Air Documentary on Economic Freedom By [Ian Vásquez](https://www.cato.org/people/ian-vasquez) --- SHARE It’s been more than a quarter century since the Fraser Institute set out to define and measure the concept of economic freedom, a project that culminated in the annual publication *of the [Economic Freedom of the World](https://www.cato.org/economic-freedom-world)* index (co-published in the United States by Cato). Since then, we’ve learned a tremendous amount about the contribution of economic freedom to human progress, there’s been an explosion of [scholarly literature](http://onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1111/coep.12010/abstract) on the subject, and the term is now commonly used by politicians and international institutions alike. A new documentary—*Economic* *Freedom in Action: Changing Lives—* will air this fall on public television stations and look at how the rise in economic freedom has transformed the lives of hundreds of millions of people around the world. See a trailer of the film below. Join us to see a screening of part of the documentary at a Cato [forum](https://www.cato.org/events/economic-freedom-action-changing-lives) on October 16 featuring the Fraser Institute’s founder and former executive director, Michael Walker, and Cato senior fellow Johan Norberg. ##### Related Tags [Trade Policy](https://www.cato.org/trade-policy), [Herbert A. Stiefel Center for Trade Policy Studies](https://www.cato.org/herbert-stiefel-center-trade-policy-studies) [![Creative Commons License](/build/cato_2020/images/creative-commons.svg)](http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc-sa/4.0/) This work is licensed under a [Creative Commons Attribution-NonCommercial-ShareAlike 4.0 International License](https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc-sa/4.0/).