Think Tanks – Transforming the Chilean Economy
This month Atlas has hosted several events in celebration of the 20th Anniversary of Libertad y Desarrollo, and the republication of Hernán Büchi’s book, The Economic Transformation of Chile, A Personal Account. Atlas’s president Alex Chafuen also drafted this article, originally published in Spanish in La Estrella de Panama. A few months ago, it was [...]
Announcing the Winners of the 2010 Atlas Sound Money Essay Contest
The Atlas Sound Money Project is proud to announce the winners of its 2010 Atlas Sound Money Essay Contest. We are grateful for the scores of carefully crafted, well-reasoned essays that we received from undergraduate and graduate students and young scholars from the think tank and policy communities. It has been gratifying to see so [...]
Congratulations to Samriddhi’s First 2010 Graduates
This week 24 university students graduated from Samriddhi Foundation’s 5 -day Arthalaya Entrepreneurship and Economics course in Nepal. Intellectually challenged for five days, the graduates participated in intense debates, discussions, case studies, team work and group assignments, interactive lectures with experts of related fields, field research and business module simulation in order to learn the [...]
Congratulations to Ipencil Institute’s Li
I was personally handed a copy of Li Ziyang’s new book, The Power of the Market. (Sadly, the book is only available in Chinese. For now.) Li is a very sharp and very insightful writer for the Ipencil Economic Research Institute, based in Beijing. Although he studied politics at Peking University, he is a self-taught [...]
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 [...]
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 [...]
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 [...]
FSSO Call for Papers
The Fund for the Study of Spontaneous Orders at the Atlas Economic Research Foundation seeks academic papers exploring the theme, “Organization and Emergence: Tensions and Symbiosis” for its 3rd Conference on Emergent Order and Society taking place December 3-6. The deadline for submitting papers is May 20th. To learn more, and to submit your paper, [...]
