The Association of Private Enterprise Education will hold its international conference on April 11-13, 2010 at the Caesars Palace Las Vegas in Las Vegas. The Sound Money Project at Atlas will be presenting a panel,“Visible and Invisible Hands in Money.”
Panelists include:

Edward Stringham (Trinity College), “The Natural Evolution of Gold-backed Monetary Notes”
Marius Gustavson (Atlas Economic Research [...]

Atlas will hold a Teach Freedom Initiative (TFI) half-day conference on the topic of sound money on April 9th, 2010, at the Sheraton Society Hill Hotel in Philadelphia, before the Annual Philadelphia Society Meeting.The theme of the conference is “The Attack on Sound Money and Entrepreneurship: Threatening Liberty in America.”
This [...]

The Atlas Sound Money Project is proud to announce the winners of its 2010 Atlas Sound Money Essay Contest.
We are grateful for the scores of carefully crafted, well-reasoned essays that we received from undergraduate and graduate students and young scholars from the think tank and policy communities. It has been gratifying to see so many [...]

Can America’s greatness be sustained in the absence of national solvency?, so asks Judy Shelton, Atlas’s Sound Money Project Senior Fellow, in today’s Wall Street Journal op-ed piece, “The United States: Debtor and Leader?.”  Concerned that our fiscal irresponsibility is making us vulnerable on the world stage, she raises an alarm about America’s potential decline [...]

The deadline for Atlas’s Sound Money Essay Contest, January 15th, 2010, is fast approaching, If you are a student, a young faculty, or a policy writer interested in the cause of sound money, here is an opportunity for you to articulate your ideas and win cash prizes.
Prizes:

The overall winner of the Essay [...]

The Atlas Sound Money Project is proud to announce the launch of its website (www.soundmoneyproject.org), a resource-filled site that intends to educate both the policy community and the general public about the principles of sound money. The issue of sound money is fundamental to the fiscal policy direction of our country. [...]

The student uprising that has been taking place in Iran these past few months is at once both illuminating and unexpected. Prof. Charles Kurzman, professor of sociology at the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill and author of The Unthinkable Revolution in Iran (Harvard University Press, 2004), explains this phenomenon in this article discussing [...]

Professor Steve Horwitz, Charles A. Dana Professor of Economics at St. Lawrence University, gave a talk entitled, “Do We Really Need a Central Bank?,” during a student lecture series sponsored by the GMU Economics Society, the Future Freedom Foundation, and the Atlas Sound Money Project.  Atlas’s Sound Money fellows, Tom Duncan and John Robinson, both [...]

As part of Atlas’s Sound Money Project, we are co-sponsoring an “ECONOMIC LIBERTY LECTURE SERIES” together with the GMU Economic Society a student organization of economic majors at George Mason University, and the Future Freedom Foundation. The lecture will feature Professor Steve Horwitz, professor of economics at St. Lawrence University, who will speak on the [...]

Sometime in October, Yale University hosted Professor Jytte Kalusen of Brandeis in connection with the launch of her new book, The Cartoons That Shook the World. Little known was a controversy that ensued over a decision made by Yale President Richard Levin and the Yale University Press not to include in her book the 12 [...]