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 [...]
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 [...]
The Entrepreneurial Generation- A Video on Regaining the Atlas Spirit.
As a part of Fundacion Global’s Atlas Shrugged program they’ve created an excellent video lauding the entrepreneurial spirit of Argentines in years past as well as the importance of the individual; ideals espoused in the book Atlas Shrugged. Below you can see the video in English, but it was originally produced in Spanish. Related Links: [...]
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 [...]
Grant Opportunity to Promote Atlas Shrugged
Request for Proposals for Atlas Shrugged project The Atlas Economic Research Foundation is pleased to announce a request for proposals for a USD 9,500 grant to teach the virtues of entrepreneurship, individual initiative, wealth generation, and prosperity by promoting Ayn Rand´s influential novel, Atlas Shrugged. Proposal content : A successful proposal will leverage these funds [...]
In Today’s Papers…
This campaign season has been pretty light on actual policy ideas. Today, Robert Samuelson has a piece that notes It is one of our fondest political myths that elections allow us collectively to settle thebig issues. The truth is that there’s often a bipartisan consensus to avoid the big issues, because they involve unpopular choices [...]
