Former FSSO Lifetime Achievement Award Winner Receives Nobel Prize in Economics
By Bill Dennis Atlas congratulates Elinor Ostrom of Indiana University and its Workshop in Political Theory and Policy Analysis on winning the 2009 Nobel Prize in economics. Through our Fund for the Study of Spontaneous Orders, Atlas in November 2003 (pg.2) presented Professor Ostrom, together with her husband Vincent Ostrom, its first Lifetime Achievement Award*. [...]
Atlas International Thursday Next Week!
Please join Atlas for its monthly INTERNATIONAL THURSDAY meeting, which will be held on October 15th from 10:00-11:30AM. The program this month will include: “A Campaign for Liberty” Eduardo Massieu- CEDICE (Venezuela). “The Free Market Movement in Austria” Bernard Adamec- Europa Institut (Austria). “International Property Rights Index” Victoria Strokova- Herrnando de Soto Fellow, Property Rights Alliance [...]
Tom Palmer on Reason.tv
The Atlas Global Initiative’s Tom Palmer was recently interviewed by Reason.Tv on his new book Realizing Freedom and the history of the Libertarian movement, take a look. You can learn more about Tom, and follow his travels by reading his blog, or following him on twitter.
Sound Money Essay Contest Deadline – Fast Approaching
Here is an opportunity for students, scholars, and policymakers trying to make sense of the U.S.’ money woes to articulate in a short essay their ideas and policy prescriptions as to what caused our financial crisis and how best to avert the occurrence of such an event in the future. Key questions stare at us: [...]
Thanks to You!
Thanks to you – and Atlas friends around the world – we accomplished our 20-day, $20K goal for the Tearing Down Walls campaign. We’ve raised over $30,000 to bring promising freedom heroes to training events surrounding the annual Freedom Dinner held on November 9th. Donations arrived via mail, Facebook, the Atlas webpage, and a variety [...]
Poverty, Inequality and Growth in Namibia
The Institute for Public Policy Research, located in the capital city Windhoek in Namibia recently released a policy paper which provides an overview of poverty, inequality and growth in post-Independence Namibia. The main findings of the paper entitled “Poverty, Inequality and Growth Linkages: National and Sectoral Evidence from Post-Independence Namibia” are: • Inequality remained at [...]
Updated:Steve Goldsmith to Keynote Upcoming Atlas Conference
Atlas is proud to announce that Professor Stephen Goldsmith will be the keynote speaker for its upcoming half-day conference on October 23rd, 2009 in Indianapolis. A former two-term mayor of Indianapolis, Goldsmith is widely known for his innovative approach to public management, entailing reduction in taxes, regulations, and the city’s bureaucracy that led to [...]
The Virtues of Charity – Nepal “Tears Down the Walls!”
By now, most Atlas followers are well aware of our “Tearing Down The Wall” campaign which seeks to tear down the remaining walls of oppression faced by people the world over. (For more on the campaign, check out TearingDownTheWall.org) Our financial goal is to raise $20,000 in the 20 days between Sept 1 and Sept [...]
Streaming International Thursday Now
We’re Streaming Live now! Marius Gustavson’s Powerpoint Tsvet Tsonevski’s Powerpoint Free video streaming by Ustream
Updated: Atlas and Sagamore Institute to Co-Sponsor a Conference in Indianapolis, October 23, 2009
Please join us for a half-day conference at the Sheraton Hotel in Indianapolis on October 23, 2009, just before the start of The Philadelphia Society’s regional meeting. Our co-sponsor, The Sagamore Institute for Policy Research , which is based in Indianapolis, is a nonprofit, nonpartisan think tank engaged in “applied research,” that is, it puts [...]
FRC Action to Host National Townhall Webcast on Health Care Reform
Today, Thursday, September 10 at 8:30 p.m. ET, FRC Action, the legislative lobbying arm of Family Research Council, will host a special one hour “National Townhall on Health Care Reform” Webcast. FRC Action President Tony Perkins will be joined by Congressional leaders and policy experts to discuss the moral, ethical, and financial dangers of President [...]
Human Action Testimonials from FEE
The Foundation for Economic Education‘s publication The Freeman, has just published an issued dedicated to Mises’ Human Action. To supplement this publication, FEE asked several established economists to offer testimonials on this foundational work. View videos from professors such as Bruce Caldwell,Larry Reed, Steve Horwitz and others. If you feel inspired by their words, share your [...]
A Report on the Financial Crisis and Sound Monetary Policy
Marius Gustavson, project manager at Civita where he conducts research on monetary policy, has written a report, “The Financial Crisis: Market Failure or Government Failure,” for this Norwegian free-market think tank . Citing both domestic and global factors as contributing to what he calls the greatest financial crisis since the Great Depression, he finds that [...]
Tearing Down the Wall
Partner with Atlas. You know that Atlas is devoted to nurturing champions of freedom on each corner, crevice, peak and valley of the world. Perhaps you’ve attended one of our events, or maybe you receive the bi-monthly Atlas Updates. Now, we are asking for you to take an extra step and become our partner in [...]
Atlas Reception for Professor Peter Berger Next Week
Please join us next week as Atlas’s Fund for the Study of Spontaneous Orders program awards Professor Peter Berger of Boston University with a Lifetime Achievement Prize for his contributions to the study of spontaneous orders in the social sciences, religion and civil society. F.H. Buckley, of the Law and Economics Center at George Mason [...]
Freedom Dinner Tickets On Sale Now
Join us to celebrate the 20th anniversary of the fall of the Berlin Wall at the Atlas Freedom Dinner in Washington, D.C. on November 9th at the Renaissance Mayflower Hotel. Two decades ago, the scar that cut the world in half was healed, and those suffering under the slavery of communism joined hands with their [...]
A Novel Recommendation from John Blundell
John Blundell, a board member here at Atlas and director of the Institute for Economic Affairs offers an excellent book review of Noble Vision, by Gen LaGreca. A book I imagine he picked up at the Atlas Experience book exchange. Each year at this event Atlas encourages guests to bring a book on any topic, [...]
2nd Annual Think Tank MBA Round-up
Scanning the daily headlines puts lovers of liberty in a sour mood, but I have to tell you:my spirits are very high in the wake of Atlas’s second Think Tank MBA program, which ended this past Friday. The Atlas Think Tank MBA is a two-week program that helps think tank leaders develop their strategic plans [...]
Event Report: Atlas Experience 2009
2009 marked the last year Atlas will hold the Annual Atlas Experience in Niagara-on-the-Lake, Canada. This year’s special program was marked with intimate discussions from some of the freedom movement’s most respected leaders, exciting excursions to Niagara Falls and others. Below please find audio and video of the panel discussions, salons and keynote speeches. Check [...]
A Tribute to Rose Friedman from Think Tank MBA Participants
Over the course of the last two weeks members of think tanks from around the world have attended Atlas’s annual Think Tank MBA a training course on think tank planning and management. Upon hearing news of the passing of Rose Friedman yesterday the participants worked together to put together this video, in her honor. The [...]
In Memory of Rose Friedman
Rose Friedman passed away this morning, August 18, 2009. I met many times with Milton Friedman, her husband and co-author of many books, I do not recall ever seeing Milton alone. Rose was always at his side. I can imagine how lonely she must have been during these months without Milton. The book which describes Rose’s [...]
Guomin Liyi Summer School Wrap-Up
Thanks in large part to the tireless effort of Atlas’s Zhang Diqing, the Guomin Liyi summer school, which ended last Friday, was a complete success. Not only did we have a fantastic turnout (70 students) and a phenomenal faculty from China’s best universities, but we even escaped with zero injuries and little to no damage [...]
FSSO Reception To Honor Peter Berger
The Fund for the Study of Spontaneous Orders at the Atlas Economic Research Foundation is hosting a reception in honor of Peter L. Berger, Professor Emeritus of Religion, Sociology and Theology at Boston University, on September 9th, 2009 at George Mason University School of Law. Professor Berger is the recipient of the Fund’s Lifetime Achievement [...]
The Atlas Experience The “Next Generation of Think Tank Leader
Jamie Story, Grassroot Institute, Hawaii Richard Durana, INESS, Slovakia Gabriel Calzada, Instituto Juan de Mariana
