About the co-publishers and acknowledgements -- Overview -- 1. Why do we measure freedom? -- 2. Human freedom from pericles to measurement -- 3. An index of freedom in the world -- 4. Measuring individual freedom: actions and rights as indicators of individual liberty -- 5. A compact statement of a cost-based theory of rights and freedom: implications for classifying and measuring rights -- 6. Conditions for freedom: a few theses on the theory of freedom and on creating an index of freedom -- 7. Evolution and freedom -- 8. Liberty in comparative perspective: China, India, and the West -- 9. The evisceration of liberty in Canadian courts -- 10. From fighting the drug war to protecting the right to use drugs: recognizing a forgotten liberty