Fund for the Study of Spontaneous Orders
About the Fund for the Study of Spontaneous Orders The Fund for the Study of Spontaneous Orders (FSSO) has been in existence since 2002, and works to further the intellectual vision of its founder the late Richard Cornuelle, author and philanthropist. Following Cornuelle’s directions the Fund recognizes and supports the work of scholars who, in [...]
2010 Templeton Freedom Award Winners
Templeton Freedom Awards for Excellence in Promoting Liberty –The largest international prize program that celebrates think tank contributions to the understanding of freedom Exceptional think tanks from 10 countries have been recognized by the 2010 Templeton Freedom Awards for Excellence in Promoting Liberty for their accomplishments in advancing freedom. Representing three continents, the 16 recipients [...]
Templeton Freedom Awards: How to Apply
To mark the tenth year of administering the Templeton Freedom Awards, Atlas is proud to announce the 2013 Templeton Freedom Award with its new prize structure. For the first time in its history and in future years, the award will be presented to one winner along with a $100,000 prize recognizing exceptional think tank achievement. [...]
Freda Utley Prize for Advancing Liberty
The Atlas Economic Research Foundation has established the Freda Utley Prize for Advancing Liberty to reward the efforts of think tanks in difficult parts of the world that are most effective in disseminating the ideas of freedom (limited government, the rule of law, free enterprise, the dignity of the individual, etc.). This annual Prize will provide [...]
Sir Antony Fisher International Memorial Awards
22 years celebrating outstanding publications produced by independent public policy research institutes. For his defense of freedom and dedication to liberty, Atlas’s founder Antony Fisher was knighted by Queen Elizabeth II in 1988. Only weeks after this great honor was bestowed upon him, Sir Antony passed away. In 1990, through the generosity of his relatives [...]
The New Templeton Freedom Award
To mark the tenth year of administering the Templeton Freedom Awards, Atlas is proud to announce the 2013 Templeton Freedom Award with its new prize structure. For the first time in its history and in future years, the award will be presented to one winner along with a $100,000 prize recognizing exceptional think tank achievement. [...]
Fisher Venture Grants
Investing in the Future of Liberty When funds allow, Atlas extends “Fisher Venture Grants” to some of the most promising young organizations in its network. Grants are structured over three years with a matching funds challenge, and ongoing mentoring from Atlas. One part of the grant will be structured as a matching program, providing strong [...]
Lights, Camera, Liberty!
Applications are now open for both U.S. and international partners to join Atlas’s Lights, Camera, Liberty program, providing grants and training to create and market high-impact online videos. All participants get grants for equipment along with on-site training from experts and daily access to a private online forum with lessons, tips and video sharing opportunities. [...]
Free Enterprise Training Centers
What are Free Enterprise Training Centers (FETC’s)? Centers within think tanks or universities that will assist Atlas in discovering, assessing, and training Intellectual Entrepreneurs in their home country or region. Several FETC’s conduct “training programs” for young people to sharpen their understanding of the ideas of liberty and the role think tanks play to advance [...]
Frédéric Bastiat’s Legacy
In 2010 Atlas’s international teams took the clear and easily understood message of Frederic Bastiat – that of property, freedom, prosperity, and peace – to the people of the world, in dozens of languages. The project included: essay contests, translation and publication of Bastiat’s works (in print and online), Freedom schools, videos, new media, such [...]
Why do some Socialists support market reforms?
by Leonard P. Liggio On July 30, the Atlas Economic Research Foundation sponsored a symposium on the legacy of Milton Friedman on the anniversary of his birth. I had the honor to be one of the speakers. Some of the discussion referred to Milton Friedman’s lectures at the Catholic University of Chile and the influence [...]
Heartland Institute Brings Climate Change to the Windy City
by Matthew Warner In 2009, in the immediate aftermath of Climategate—a leak of emails showing some of the world’s top climate scientists had been acting in bad faith to promote the message that manmade greenhouse gases were destroying the planet—it was tempting to hope “cap and trade” enthusiasts would pause to check their premises. Those [...]
Atlas in Action: Brazil
by Diogo Costa 2010 is an important election year for Brazil, and Atlas’s Portuguese-language program, OrdemLivre.org, has been working with other free market organizations to bring national attention to the issue of tax reform. In May, Brazilians celebrated two major achievements towards this mission. While Hillary Clinton wants American taxation to become more like Brazil, [...]
Atlas Trains 24 New Leaders in Think Tank Management
For two weeks in April, twenty-four enthusiastic leaders in the liberty movement attended Atlas’s intensive Think Tank MBA (TTMBA) course. The advanced program provided hands-on training in effective organizational management and sound business practices to think tank professionals from as far away as Hong Kong, Argentina, Mozambique and Kyrgyzstan. Participants learned how to create a [...]
A True ‘Atlas Experience’ in Miami to Beat Back Socialism
On April 21-22 Atlas held its first of two flagship events in 2010. The Atlas Experience, in Miami, Florida, focused on the theme “Beating Back Socialism in the U.S. and Abroad.” Despite travel difficulty thanks to volcanic activity in Iceland, 160 participants braved long queues and exhausting flights to attend the event. Over the course [...]
Sunmark Foundation names Atlas ‘Preferred Partner’
by Alejandro Antonio Chafuen What a privilege and responsibility to receive this recognition from Menlo Smith and the board of the Sunmark Foundation. With a stellar career as businessman, philanthropist, and builder of a civil society with strong spiritual content, there are few people who I admire more than Menlo Smith, founder and former chairman [...]
Mario Vargas Llosa: a Nobel for the pen of liberty
by Alejandro Antonio Chafuen Many articles have been written about why Mario Vargas Llosa received his well deserved Nobel Prize in Literature. What follows will perhaps explain why he got it so late. Hopefully, it will also provide some hints about why this award can contribute so much to create a new positive language and [...]
Maoist Strike Fails, Nepal’s Future Hangs in the Balance
The following is an update from an ally of Atlas in Nepal on the situation unfolding in Kathmandu. It is anonymous for safety concerns. Dear Friends of Liberty, I am writing to update you on the situation in Nepal. Politically, this must be the worst situation in the last three years. In 2006, radical revolutionary [...]
A Cultural Awakening in Eastern Europe
“For hundreds of years Slovakians were told that God would take care of them. And then for dozens of years they were told that the State would take care of them,” Martin Chren told the Atlas Freedom Dinner audience in November 2009. Chren explained that since the fall of the Iron Curtain, Slovakia has succeeded [...]
Atlas vs. The Volcano
On April 18-22 Atlas’s Russian program InLiberty.ru held a seminar in the beautiful city of Odessa, Ukraine despite major travel restraints due to the volcano in Iceland. Several participants and speakers were unable to attend (including Professor of Russian Literature and Cultural History at Oxford University, Andrei Zorin). But as they say, “the show must [...]
Ideas First in Southeast Asia
The idea was hatched in London when three Malaysian natives, at the time working for British political consultancies, found out they had one unique thing in common – they were libertarians. In Malaysia, a country that is divided by fierce ethnic and religious loyalty, people stick to their clan, vote for their own and expect [...]
Crisis & Opportunity
Mirsulzhan Namazaliev awoke to the sound of gunfire in his downtown Bishkek apartment on a Tuesday night in early April. By Friday, a new government was in power and he was sharing his opinions of the transition on CNN International. In this edition of Atlas Highlights, we feature the story of the Central Asia Free [...]
Braving the Storm – Students for Limited Government
The first week of February 2010 will be long-remembered by residents of the Washington D.C. area. It was the week of “Snowpocalypse,” when forty inches of snow brought the District to a halt. It also was the week of the Students for Liberty’s(SFL) third annual conference, which – despite the weather-related obstacles – attracted more [...]
A 21st Century Challenge
Many of Atlas’s partners were inspired by meeting Sir Antony Fisher in the course of their professional lives, or by reading about Fisher’s impact as one of the think-tank movement’s founding “intellectual entrepreneurs.” But Rod Richardson encountered Fisher differently, as a visitor to his parents’ Manhattan apartment in the 1970s when Rod was just a [...]
