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.
Announcing Winners of the 2009 Templeton Freedom Awards
For Immediate Release October 19, 2009 Contact: Atlas Economic Research Foundation, 202-449-8449 Thinks Tanks from 12 Countries Honored for Contributions to Public Debates on Free Enterprise and Individual Liberty WASHINGTON, DC — Today the Atlas Economic Research Foundation announced the winners of the 2009 Templeton Freedom Awards for Excellence in Promoting Liberty, the largest international [...]
Vienna
This post originally appeared on Tom Palmer’s personal Blog on October 14th. I had an early morning seminar and book presentation on Realizing Freedom: Libertarian Theory, History, and Practice, at the offices of the Hayek Institut in Vienna, followed by a visit to the Finance Ministry to hear the address of the Finance Minister, Dr. [...]
Risk to Watch in Africa: Violence in Kenyan Elections
Last week Ed Cropley, African Investment Correspondent for REUTERS listed five risks to watch for in Africa. Not surprisingly, threat of violence and corruption in Kenyan elections made the list. Last year’s post-election violence has not yet been brought to justice, and there is strong evidence that tribal and ethnic groups are arming themselves for [...]
Not Evil, Just Wrong
Phelim McAleer is the producer of Not Evil, Just Wrong, a new documentary about global warming alarmism (which follows up in his Mine Your Business, which took a skeptical view of the environmental lobby’s motives in preventing mining operations). Last week, McAleer created a stir at a conference of the Society of Environmental Journalists, by [...]
Think Tank Diary: Week 3-What is Ephemerisle?
This series features guest blog posts from think tank leaders around the world. This month, we’ll learn about the work and experiences of the Seasteading Institute, written by Patri Friedman. This week we learn about their experimental event, Ephemerisle, and learn a bit about living on the water. Check out past Think Tank Diary entries [...]
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.
How does Africa rank? Good and Poor Governance Report Reveals
Cape Town — Southern Africa is the continent’s best-governed and Central Africa its worst-governed region, according to a new ranking of Africa’s quality of governance published on October 5, 2009. If you are an African who ranks health, education and freedom from poverty as your top priority, you are best off in the Seychelles, and [...]
Atlas Shrugged in Bulgarian
This week the first portion of Ayn Rand’s book, Atlas Shrugged was published in Bulgarian, the second and third portions will be published by the end of this year.This is the 5th book by Rand that his been translated and published into Bulgarian, others include, The Fountainhead, Capitalism: the Unknown Ideal, For the New Intellectual [...]
A Review of Henri Pirenne’s Mohammed and Charlemagne
When I was studying at Columbia University Law School, I read Henri Pirenne’s classic study, Mohammed and Charlemagne (it was an eye-opener and contributed to my studying history in graduate school). Henri Pirenne (1862-1935) was the famous professor of medieval history at the University of Ghent (1886-1930). His analysis showed that the expansion of Islam [...]
Not all Nestle is Sweet
AfriForum, a South African civil rights initiative, on Wednesday launched an international campaign called Stop Nestle imploring people to boycott all Nestlé products, until the company stops buying ‘blood milk’ from Robert Mugabe’s wife Grace. An outcry erupted early this week when it was revealed that the Mugabe’s own 12 farms between them and that [...]
Freedom to Trade Strikes Again
On September the 23rd Atlas’s Global Initiative and an international delegation of students traveled to Pittsburgh for the G20 meetings in order to encourage leaders to resist protectionist temptations. Austin Petersen led the team of 20 free marketeers to Carnegie Mellon University to hand out flyers, shoot a video, and talk to the press in [...]
Deepak Lal Seminars in Russia
We’ve got exciting updates from Inliberty.ru the Russian website run by the Atlas Global Initiative. Over the course of the last few weeks seminars with Mont Pelerin Society president Deepak Lal for students at Universities across Russia. Below is a note from Anna Krasinskaya, who has been coordinating these events: The photos you will find [...]
The Economist Features mPedigree
The impact of mobile phones and mobile applications on emerging markets This week’s Economist has an excellent set of special reports focused on the impact that mobile phones and mobile applications are having on emerging markets. The reports also cover how mobile applications are being used to provide financial services to millions around the world [...]
Bastiat’s Weekend in Poland
Last week PAFERE hosted it’s first,in a hopefully annual, conference on the life and legacy of Frederic Bastiat. This young institute, which has won several awards from Atlas for it’s excellent products it seems has done an excellent job again, take a look at this post about the event by Sheldon Richman, who spoke. Last [...]
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 [...]
Think Tank Diary: The Seasteading Institute
This series will feature guest blog posts from think tank leaders around the world. This month, we’ll learn about the work and experiences of the Seasteading Institute, written by Patri Friedman. Check out past Think Tank Diary entries here. The Seasteading Institute‘s mission is to “Further the establishment and growth of permanent, autonomous ocean communities, [...]
Opportunities with The Institute for Humane Studies
Many friends at Atlas have gotten their start with liberty at an Institute for Humane Studies seminar, or through participating in one of their summer internship programs. We thought it would be nice to share some of the many opportunities IHS has for students, and lovers of liberty to learn about the ideas of free [...]
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 [...]
