Former chairman of the Friedrich Naumann Foundation (FNF), German Economy Minister, and reparations negotiator for victims of Nazi labor camps, Otto Lambsdorff died on December 4 at the age of 82. Lambsdorff served as Minister of Economics under Chancellors Schmidt and Kohl and led the classical liberal Free Democratic Party from 1988-93. According to [...]

Please join us for a half-day conference at the Sheraton Hotel in Indianapolis on October 23, 2009, just before the start of The Philadelphia Society’s regional meeting.  Our co-sponsor, The Sagamore Institute for Policy Research , which is based in Indianapolis, is a nonprofit, nonpartisan think tank engaged in “applied research,” that is, it puts [...]

By Priscilla Tacujan
Special thanks to Barun Mitra (Liberty Institute), Nonoy Oplas (Minimal Government) and Jyoti Sachavirawong (FNF-Asia), who provided information for this post.
Our friends in Asia are abuzz about the latest events in India and Thailand, writing and blogging about their perspectives and assessments of how things unfolded on the ground, while lending us [...]

I recently had the opportunity to attend the 3rd Annual Economic Freedom of the Arab World Conference in Doha, Qatar November 4-6, 2008:
The conference was sponsored by the International Research Foundation (IRF), based in the Sultanate of Oman, the Fraser Institute and the Friedrich Naumann Foundation (FNF). Participants included individuals from countries such as Egypt, [...]

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 [...]

The Economic Freedom Network Asia, in collaboration with the Center for Research and Communication, Foundation for Economic Freedom, Friedrich Naumann Foundation, Philippine Economic Society, and the School of Economics at the University of Asia and the Pacific, is hosting its 10th Economic Freedom Network Conference on September 18-19, 2008 at the University of Asia and [...]

For a lot of European Libertarians, an IES seminar was the first step in a lifelong commitment to freedom. Each year, thanks to great partnerships, those seminar move further and reach more people.
Just this week, more than 30 students from Eastern Europe have the great opportunity of being together, discussing ideas of freedom in Bakuriani, [...]

Economic Freedom in Asia
September 4-5, 2008
Seoul, South Korea
Co-hosted by:Atlas Economic Research Foudantion, Center for Free Enterprise, and Friedrich Naumann Foundation

For more information about this event, please see the tentative program.
UPDATE: Maurice McTigue of the Mercatus Center will be the keynote speaker for this event.