Franklin Cudjoe, 2010 Young Global Leader Award
Life seems to grant rare opportunities to show a person how much they really mean to us. Sure, on a daily basis we say “thank-you” and tell people we appreciate them, but very rarely is there a time and place to tell the world about a person who has [...]

Please take the time to read this interview with Tom Palmer featured in the Washington Examiner last week.
And, In case you haven’t seen this lovely video in honor of Leonard Liggio put together by the Institute for Economic Studies-Europe on their 20th Anniversary,do take a look.

Atlas is pleased to announce that it has selected the Free Market Foundation of South Africa as the recipient of the 2010 Freda Utley Prize for Advancing Liberty.
From the Press Release:
FMF was established at a time when South Africa’s Prime Minister John Vorster was steadily increasing intervention in the economy in preparation for the [...]

Today is your final opportunity to apply for this year’s Think Tank MBA program. Don’t Wait, Apply Now!

Happy New Year to  all of our friends! Many of you  have already had the opportunity to read Atlas’s Year in Review, outlining Atlas’s events and programs over the course of 2009, if you haven’t please take a look below:
Atlas Year in Review 2009
We’ve received several exciting year end reports from some very new [...]

Just a reminder that today is the deadline to apply for Atlas’s annual Think Tank MBA program. Take a look at some of the posts below to get an idea of what you’ll expect, and submit your application by COB today!

2nd Annual Think Tank MBA Round-up
Atlas Think Tank MBA Round-up
Images from the 2009 MBA [...]

It’s the holiday season and non profits around the world are getting in on the act of giving. Today I bring you three separate contests, in 3 regions :

Don’t forget Atlas’s Sound Money Essay Contest, which awards up to $5000 to the student or professor with an excellent idea on the topic of money.  The [...]

Today is the deadline for  nominations for Atlas’s Fisher Memorial Award for Publications. Nominations of excellent publications, copyrights between 2008-2009, can be submitted here for the opportunity to win $10,000.
Past winners here:

2009 Fisher Award Winners Press Release
2008, 2007, 2006, 2005, 2004, 2003, 2002, 2001, 2000, 1999, 1998,1997, 1996, 1995, 1994, 1993, 1992, 1991, 1990, Lifetime Achievement Award

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 [...]

Join us as we learn from friends of freedom around the world.

Jacek Spendel, Globalization Institute, Poland
Marion Smith, Common Sense Society, Hungary
Shane Frith, Progressive Vision, United Kingdom

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