Conversely, the more power governments have, the more human insecurity and violence. Freedom is an engine of economic and human development, and scientific and technological advancement. Freedom ameliorates the problem of mass poverty. Free people do not suffer from and never have had famines, and by theory, should not. Freedom is therefore a solution to hunger and famine.
Free people have the least internal violence, turmoil, and political instability.
Free people have virtually no government genocide and mass murder, and for good theoretical reasons. Free people do not make war on each other, and the greater the freedom within two nations, the less violence between them. The purpose of this web site, then, is to make as widely available as possible the theories, work, results, and data that empirically and historically, quantitatively and qualitatively, support these conclusions about freedom. The reason for this is that while economists and libertarians have well informed the public about the positive role of economic and political freedom in promoting wealth and prosperity, and there are institutes and centers devoted to this, there is a vast ignorance about the amount and nature of democide that has occurred. Few know that governments have murdered several times more people than have died in internal and foreign wars.