International Thursday This Week
Join us this Thursday, May 21st for our monthly International Thursdays event. This month’s panelists: The Dispute in Kashmir – presented by Ghulam Mohammad Mir, former president of Jammu Kashmir Plebiscite Front (JKPF) Human Rights in Cuba – presented by Yesenia Alvarez, president of Peru’s Instituto Politico para la Libertad, which has produced a new [...]
Bill Dennis on “The New Age of Responsibility”
Bill Dennis, a senior fellow at Atlas, gave a short talk on the meaning of responsibility for a panel of former Philadelphia Society presidents during the Philadelphia Society’s annual meeting held in New Orleans last month. In the face of what he calls “the advent of the New Era of Irresponsibility” – of massive new [...]
Summer Institute Forum at the University of Richmond
The Summer Institute for the History of Economic Thought offers a forum for distinguished scholars and students to present works-in-progress or more polished papers to a lively audience. This year, the Summer Institute will be hosted by the Jepson School for Leadership Studies, June 19-22nd. On June 19th, the seminar will begin with a day [...]
European Free Market Roadshow
The 2nd Annual Free Market Roadshow will take place May 11th-20th and will make stops in Macedonia, Zagreb, Podgorica, Vienna, Bratislava, Vaduz, Paris and London. Each city will host a day-long program, highlighting the importance of Free Markets, and featuring speakers such as, John Fund of the Wall Street Journal, Dan Mitchell of the Cato [...]
Challenges of an Increasingly Dangerous World
As the general concern around the world has shifted towards the global economic crisis (rightly so), we thought to remind everyone that this crisis could manifest itself into other areas, namely the security arena. As it stands, there are still many parts of the world where dictatorial leaders would use this economic downturn as an [...]
Event Report: Liberty Forum 2009
Thanks again for joining us for Liberty Forum 2009, below you’ll find audio and video of all of the panels, as well as the speaker’s presentations. Follow up with those you’ve met by joining and discussing on the 2009 Liberty Forum Facebook group. UPDATE: Photos of the Liberty Forum are now available on Flickr, take [...]
Liberty Forum Wrap-Up
Thank you for joining us for our Liberty Forum coverage last week. We know we had some technical difficulties here and there. Video of many of the panels and speeches are available on our Ustream Channels, here and here. Over the course of the week we’ll be posting audio from all of the events [...]
The World Is Depending on Us: How to Make the Case for Free Trade, Peace and Prosperity
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Watch Liberty Forum 2009 All Day
Welcome to Atlas Liberty Forum. We’ll be livestreaming the panel discussions across our websites throughout the day, so check back often. Today’s Schedule: 8:30AM Pacific Managing a Think Tank in Hard Times Moderator: Sally Pipes, Pacific Research Center Michel Kelly-Gagnon, Institut Economique de Montreal, Canada Kris Mauren, Acton Institute, USA Robin Sitoula, [...]
Liberty Forum Starts Today!
Well you’ve read about it, and read about it, and the day is finally here! Atlas’s Liberty Forum 2009 begins this afternoon, and will feature a keynote speech by former president of Mexico, Vicente Fox this evening at 7pm Pacific time. Join us here to watch us announce the winners of the Fisher Memorial Awards, [...]
And We’re Off…
Today, Atlas’s staff will be heading out to Los Angeles for the: Heritage Resource Bank SPN Leadership Development Breakfast Atlas Liberty Forum It’ll be an action packed three days! Blog posts may be a bit light today and tomorrow, but be sure to check back Friday and Saturday to watch Atlas Liberty Forum Live. For [...]
Liberty Forum Starts April 24th!
This year’s Atlas Liberty Forum begins this Thursday, April 24th in Los Angeles, California. We’re very excited about this year’s program, which features keynote speeches from former Mexican president Vicente Fox, and former Bolivia president, Jorge Quiroga. In addition, Atlas will award the winners of the Fisher Memorial Awards, and announce 2009′s Fisher Venture Grant [...]
Atlas Podcast: TFI Keynote Speech by Jeff Sandefer
On April 5th Atlas held a half day conference, “Improving Students’ Appreciation of Free-Market Thinking Through the Academy”, just prior to the APEE meeting in Guatemala. The keynote speaker for this meeting was Jeff Sandefer, Professor and CO-Founder of Acton MBA in Entrepreneurship. His speech was entitled, An Alternative Model for Educating Business Leaders. In [...]
Atlas Podcast: TFI Keynote Speech by James Otteson
On March 27th Atlas’s Teach Freedom Initiative hosted a half-day conference on the topic Free Enterprise and the Commercial Republic: Teaching Students about America’s Economic Foundations. This meeting took place in New Orleans, Louisiana just prior the Philadelphia Society’s Annual Meeting. Listen in to hear James Otteson, Visiting Professor of Government from Georgetown University, as [...]
Atlas International Thursday- April 16th
Please join us next week, April 16th, for our monthly International Thursday meeting from 10-11:30am. This month’s speakers will be: USA- Fred Smith- President and Founder of the Competitive Enterprise Institute- “NGO bias in the International Economy.” CHINA- Feng Xingyuan- Cathay Institute for Public Affairs (CIPA) – current programs and initiatives SERBIA- Aleksandar Novakovic- Katalaksija [...]
Making Sense of it All in Nepal
The courageous Prosperity Foundation (Samriddhi) of Nepal is organizing what looks like a fantastic conference for young people that aims to take, “The first step towards enterprise building or towards shouldering the risk and leadership it takes to be innovative and creative.” The workshop lasts five days, during which participants will learn risk taking skills, [...]
Rand in Malaysia
To the list that includes Gödel‘s incompleteness theorem and the Law of Quadratic Reciprocity, we can now add Rand’s Rule: There is an inverse relationship between economic growth in general, and the sales of Ayn Rand’s Atlas Shrugged. The ‘Rand Resurgence’ has been the topic of several recent media reports (see here and here), and [...]
Inaugural STI: The Czech Experience and Georgia’s Challenges
A couple of weeks ago I mentioned a pilot project that our SFS Program initiated two months ago. The project is a Security Training Initiative (STI), meant to leverage the security experts in our network to act as trainers for building up the security expertise of free market think tanks that are part of the [...]
Congratulations, EBI Think Tank Institute
A hearty congratulations to Battsetseg Shagdar, the Director/Co-Founder of EBI Think Tank Institute, for the success of their EBI Freedom Dinner 2009, held last Friday night in Ulaanbaatar. According to Battsetseg, 300 guests attended the dinner in order to celebrate EBI’s committment to making Mongolia a free and open society.
Two Teach Freedom Initiative Events this Week
Atlas’s Teach Freedom Initiative program seeks to educate university professors, about the possibilities of Academic Center’s on their college campuses. This week, Atlas is hosting two meetings for University scholars: The first takes place tomorrow, March 27th just prior to the Philadelphia Society Annual Meeting in New Orleans on the topic, “Free- Market Enterprise and [...]
Atlas Podcast: March International Thursday
On March 19th Atlas hosted it’s monthly International Thursday meeting at our new offices in Washington D.C. Joining us to discuss “Troublesome Issues and Areas for the Obama Administration” were: TRADE POLICY- Dan Griswold, Cato Institute NORTH KOREA- Helle C. Dale, Deputy of Foreign and Defense Policy Studies, Heritage Foundation. AFGHANISTAN-Don Ritter, President of the [...]
Atlas Liberty Forum Keynote Speakers: Vicente Fox and Jorge Quiroga
Atlas is thrilled to announce that Former President of Mexico, Vicente Fox will serve as keynote speaker at the 2009 Liberty Forum‘s Sir Antony Fisher Memorial Awards Dinner on Friday, April 24th. Fox served as President of Mexico from 2000 to 2006. The first candidate from the opposition party to be elected president since 1920, he garnered 42 [...]
Atlas Event: International Thursday this Week, March 19th
Please join us at Atlas’s NEW OFFICE located on1201 L street, NW, Washington DC, 20005 for our monthly INTERNATIONAL THURSDAY. The meeting will be held on March 19th from 10:00-11:30AM. The speakers this month will be addressing the following topic: “Troublesome Areas for the Obama Administration” NORTH KOREA- Helle C. Dale, Deputy of Foreign and [...]
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