There are two promising free market events in Asia during the next two weeks, both of which I’ll have the pleasure of attending.
The first is the annual meeting of the Economic Freedom Network Asia, a project of the Friedrich-Naumann-Stiftung für die Freiheit. This year’s meeting will be held in Siem Reap, home of the fabled [...]

A few newsworthy updates from our partners in Europe

The Wall Street Journal published an op-ed from ECIPE’s Razeen Sally and Frederik Erixon, “Keynes at Home  Smith Abroad, Domestic Stimulus spills over to Protectionism.” (subscription needed)
The Murray Rothbard Institute is hosting its second annual Summer University program in Belgium, professors slated to speak include, Prof. Bertrand [...]

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 [...]

The Fraser Institute has launched a new contest to identify economic and public policy issues which still require proper measurement in order to facilitate meaningful analysis and public discourse. The Essay Contest for Excellence in the Pursuit of Measurement is an opportunity for the public to comment on an economic or public policy issue that [...]

This article provides some background on the Third Economic Freedom of the Arab World Conference, which has just been held in Doha, Qatar. The meeting was hosted by the International Research Foundation of Oman, the Fraser Institute, Friedrich Naumann Foundation and Atlas. Our own Ziba Ayeen will report on the conference on her return.

Atlas’s president, Alex Chafuen offers thoughts on making the choice not to accept government funding for your think tank.

Poverty and desperation in many parts of the world; particularly the Muslim world, is a result of a lack of education, illiteracy, corrupt governments, regional power struggles and foreign intervention.
Atlas and its partners around the globe have worked tirelessly for decades to change the reality on the ground in these impoverished regions, one Intellectual Entrepreneur [...]

On September 16, 2008, the Fraser Institute, a Canadian-based think tank and winner of both Fisher and Templeton Awards, will mark the release of its 2008 Economic Freedom of the World Report in Hong Kong at an event appropriately titled “Celebrate Hong Kong”. Hong Kong has consistently ranked high in the Institute’s reports since it [...]

This year marks the 50th Anniversary of the Friedrich Naumann Foundation for Liberty (FNF) and the 10th Anniversary of Economic Freedom Network (EFN)! A dinner celebration for these important anniversaries will take place on September 18, 2008 at EDSA Shangri-La Hotel in the Philippines as part of the EFN Asia annual conference program this year [...]