Slovakia: Promoting the morality of free markets
The Conservative Institute (Slovakia) is awarded the prize for bringing diverse and qualified thinkers to Slovakia to participate in lectures on economics and ethics since 2005.
Poland: Mythology of Greenhouse effect: How eco-terrorists, big business and politicians manipulate the public
The Globalization Institute in Poland sparked a national debate questioning the science of global warming by publishing “The Mythology of the Greenhouse Effect,” right before the United Nations Conference on Climate Change in Poznań.
South Africa: The Fight against Unemployment
The Free Market Foundation of South Africa is recognized by the Templeton Freedom Awards 2009 for their book “Jobs for the Jobless” denouncing the high legal restrictions on job security that has led to massive unemployment.
Georgia: Changing a Country – from Poverty to Wealth
The New Economic School in the Republic of Georgia is a winner of the Templeton Freedom Awards for their efforts to lift the country from poverty by using political advocacy, consultancy and educational meetings with politicians to shape the debate to focus on pro-growth policies.
Brazil: Promoting Democracy, Market Economy and the Rule of Law
Instituto Millenium of Brazil is awarded the Young Institute award for its impressive early record of achievement, attracting more than 1000 students to two forums at universities, placing more than 100 articles in newspapers and magazines and over 30 videos online, publishing two books, and developing a weekly newsletter with more than 5000 subscribers.
TFA09 – USA: A nation that doesn’t educate in liberty will not long preserve it
The Foundation for Individual Rights in Education is recognized for its Campus Freedom Network, a grassroots effort to educate students and make them active partners in restoring liberty to campus life and to create a nationwide network of student advocates.
TFA09 – Peru: Transforming knowledge of entrepreneurship into real-life experience
Institute Invertir (Peru) is recognized in the Student Outreach category for its program bringing over 200 top-performing university students from all the regions of Peru to learn how to set up a business and run it efficiently.
Atlas/Sagamore Conference, October 23rd – There is Still Time to Register!
We are a week away from what promises to be a most interesting conference in Indianapolis. The speakers are a great draw for this event. Each is a trailblazer in their respective fields! With the theme, “The Advance of Liberty: Challenges and Opportunities Around the Globe,” participants of this Atlas/Sagamore co-sponsored conference will have the [...]
Soaring College Costs and Student Federal Aid
Yesterday, the Cato Institute Policy Forum and the Pope Center for Higher Education hosted a luncheon discussion, “Taking Control of Spiraling College Costs,” to look for explanations into why college costs are skyrocketing (conference podcast yet to be archived). One explanation is the “unintended consequences” of federal tuition aid, enabling college officials to engage in [...]
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 [...]
Discovering the Spirit of the Real John Galts in Argentina
In the first decades of the 20th century, Argentina was one of the leading countries in the world. Thanks to the vision of Juan Bautista Alberdi the country welcomed millions of immigrants – in 1930, foreigners represented 30% of the population. The newcomers began to work and create wealth and opportunities in a country with [...]
Exploring the Common Grounds of Islam and Atlas Shrugged
One of the events organized by the Malaysian Think Tank through the 2008 Atlas Shrugged Grant program was an academic symposium. The main goal of the symposium was to investigate the common grounds of ideas between Atlas Shrugged and Islam with 7 academics and officials from various institutions. Here are some of the results: There [...]
Ayn Rand’s Philosophy Taught to High School Students in Slovakia
One year ago 4 different organizations received a generous grant of $10,000 to fund projects that would spread the ideas of Ayn Rand ‘s novel Atlas Shrugged. Among the winners of the 2008 Atlas Shrugged Grants was the Hayek Foundation in Slovakia. The institute invested the grant in a high school project by creating a [...]
Religious Liberty and Belmont Abbey College
In an article published by the Pope Center for Higher Education, Jay Schalin, who researches and writes on higher education issues for the Center, points to the growing problem of bureaucratic overreach facing private colleges these days. At stake is nothing less than a religious school’s right to assert its religious liberty based on its [...]
Fall Meetings: Philadelphia Society and Atlas’s TFI
The Philadelphia Society will hold its regional meeting on October 23-24 in Indianapolis, Indiana. The theme of this meeting is Pursuit of Truth: Inside and Outside the Academy. The conference promises a distinguished group of scholars who will address critical challenges facing higher education these days, ranging from issues as sublime as the purposes of [...]
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 [...]
Canada’s Role in Securing International Waters – Event by Fraser Institute
Canada is of strategic importance, not only for bilateral relations with the United States, but also as a multi-lateral force around the world, at least in security terms. A little over a month ago, I attended a conference in Kingston-Ontario that was hosted by Queen’s University. This particular conference focused on Canada’s military role in [...]
Great Books Summer Program
Philosophizing is not exactly a fun way to spend one’s summer. But that does not seem to be the case with the young students, ages 12 to 17, who are enrolled in the Great Books Summer Program. An annual program offered at either Stanford University or Amherst College, it is designed to make these “precocious [...]
Progressive Policy and the Decline of Detroit
In this insightful piece, “Detroit: The Triumph of Progressive Public Policy,” Jarrett Skorup, a research intern at the Mackinac Center for Public Policy, points to a correlation between progressive public policy and the decline of Detroit as a city that used to enjoy the reputation of being the wealthiest city in America in 1950. According [...]
Atlas’s Sound Money Project on Facebook
In our desire to reach as many folks who can contribute to sound money literacy as possible, Atlas has recently created a Facebook group to open a forum where students and professors alike can discuss issues related to sound money. The site offers excellent articles written by monetary scholars and policy experts. As a reminder [...]
The Motorhome Diaries Talks with Tom Palmer
The Motorhome Diaries, sponsored by the Atlas Network, recently rolled though Washington, DC and I had the opportunity to interview Tom Palmer. We discussed how he discovered the ideas of liberty and what he has done to further these ideas, including the launch of the Atlas Global Initiative.
Mexico’s Seven Deadly Questions by Roger Pardo-Maurer
Yesterday we held our monthly International Thursday event, and one of our speakers made a comment that got my attention. When talking about the shift towards populism, and the erosion of capitalism and democracy in Latin America, he said that their is nothing more worrisome than the longevity of liberal democracy being in the [...]
Perverse Incentives Drive Up Tuition and Operating Costs in Higher Education
College education does not come cheap these days. Year after year, colleges and universities increase their tuition fees without offering a reasonable explanation to those who foot the bill. Parents lament over how they can keep up with these out-of-control financial demands imposed on them by university administrators who seem unaccountable for the decisions they [...]
