While attending an event on the flat tax in Beijing yesterday, I was handed a copy of the Property Rights Alliance’s 2010 International Property Rights Index, which looks at the Legal and Political Environment, Physical Property Rights, and Intellectual Property Rights. The report is created with the help of 62 organizations from around the world, [...]

This year’s Hayek Essay Contest, hosted by the Mont Pelerin Society is now open. The question to answer, by individuals 35  years or younger is:

Examine whether authoritarian capitalism is a viable alternative to its Western liberal version, to promote long term economic growth and development.

Prize Information
First prize: $2500 cash award + travel grant*
Second prize: $1500 [...]

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.

The Development Research Institute (DRI) at New York University has received the BBVA Foundation’s Frontiers of Knowledge Award for its weblog project, Aid Watch for “its contribution to the analysis of foreign aid provision, and its challenge to the conventional wisdom in development assistance.”  The year-old blog is principally written by economist William Easterly, author [...]

Each year James McGann with the University of Pennsylvania and the Foreign Policy Research Institute put together a study of the global think tank industry. This study looks at think tanks in general, and is not issue, or idealogy specific. Each year, based on the reviews of judges from around the world, a list of  [...]

2010 marks the 10th anniversary of PERC’s Enviropreneur Institute (PEI). Seventeen fellows will be selected to participate in PEI, which will take place in Bozeman, Montana  from June 27–July 9, 2010. PERC’s Enviropreneur Institute is an intense, two-week educational experience in Bozeman, Montana, for environmental entrepreneurs who want to have a better understanding of how [...]

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

Blogging has been light here over the holidays, but rest assured, we’ll get back to promoting global think tank work on a regular basis soon! For now, I’d like you offer a few exciting highlights from think tanks across the United States:

The Fraser Institute, in Canada, gets a new CEO, Dr. Brett Skinner -Brett’s past [...]

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 [...]

As 2009 draws to a close we (gladly) wave goodbye to a decade of government decadence where respect  for the principles of  liberty, free exchange, and limited government was scarce.  For those who hold Adam Smith’s maxim of “peace, easy taxes, and a tolerable administration of justice” dear to their hearts, the 2000s could not [...]