AkademiMerdeka.org is a joint web project of the Malaysia Think Tank and the Atlas Global Initiative and promotes free-markets, peace and liberty in Bahasa Melayu (spoken in Malaysia, southern Thailand, Singapore, and Brunei) and Bahasa Indonesia (spoken in Indonesia and East Timor).  On February 5-7 AkademiMerdeka.org held its Freedom Academy in Kuala Lumpur on the [...]

It is a bittersweet time at Atlas this week, as our longtime Vice President of Institute Relations, Jo Kwong, moves on to an exciting new opportunity at Philanthropy Roundtable.
If you have met Jo, you know that she is among the most spirited and gifted defenders of the ideas of liberty.  She has spent the last two [...]

On Wednesday, February 17, the Initiative for Public Policy Analysis (Nigeria) and AfricaRoundtable.com will host a luncheon in Lagos on the topic, “US Terror List: Will it impede Nigeria’s Economic Development?” – moderated by Thompson Ayodele, director of IPPA and featuring Martin Oluba, economics professor at the Swiss Management Centre, and Olajide Daramola of the [...]

The Development Research Institute (DRI) at New York University has received the BBVA Foundation’s Frontiers of Knowledge Award for its weblog project, Aid Watch for “its contribution to the analysis of foreign aid provision, and its challenge to the conventional wisdom in development assistance.”  The year-old blog is principally written by economist William Easterly, author [...]

Fundación Paraguaya, winner of Atlas’s Templeton Freedom Award for Social Entrepreneurship in 2009, has been racking up awards for its development of the San Francisco Agriculture School – a financially self-sufficient educational experience for transforming poor youth into successful entrepreneurs.  The School runs 17 small-scale, on-campus, farming enterprises that train students not only how to [...]

In protest of a new law that greatly curbs the right to freedom of contract and imposes barriers to trade and entrepreneurship, Russian libertarians, many of them graduates of InLiberty.ru summer schools, are banding together to arrange their own Tea Parties modeled after the  anti-tax demonstrations that swept America in 2009. They are calling on [...]

As 2009 draws to a close we (gladly) wave goodbye to a decade of government decadence where respect  for the principles of  liberty, free exchange, and limited government was scarce.  For those who hold Adam Smith’s maxim of “peace, easy taxes, and a tolerable administration of justice” dear to their hearts, the 2000s could not [...]

Cristián Larroulet, director of Libertad y Desarrollo (Liberty and Development), was recently chosen by 500 of his peers as 2009’s top economist in Chile [link in Spanish].  After finishing his education at Pontifical Catholic University of Chile and the University of Chicago, Larroulet served as chief of staff for Chilean Finance Minister Hernán Büchi (1985-89) [...]

Former chairman of the Friedrich Naumann Foundation (FNF), German Economy Minister, and reparations negotiator for victims of Nazi labor camps, Otto Lambsdorff died on December 4 at the age of 82. Lambsdorff served as Minister of Economics under Chancellors Schmidt and Kohl and led the classical liberal Free Democratic Party from 1988-93. According to [...]

University of New Castle Professor and Director of the E.G. West Centre,  James Tooley is a tireless champion of private education for children in the developing world.  In researching his new book, A Beautiful Tree: A Personal Journey Into How The World’s Poorest People are Educating Themselves, Tooley found pockets of communities all over the [...]