The Association of Private Enterprise Education will hold its international conference on April 11-13, 2010 at the Caesars Palace Las Vegas in Las Vegas. The Sound Money Project at Atlas will be presenting a panel,“Visible and Invisible Hands in Money.”
Panelists include:

Edward Stringham (Trinity College), “The Natural Evolution of Gold-backed Monetary Notes”
Marius Gustavson (Atlas Economic Research [...]

Atlas will hold a Teach Freedom Initiative (TFI) half-day conference on the topic of sound money on April 9th, 2010, at the Sheraton Society Hill Hotel in Philadelphia, before the Annual Philadelphia Society Meeting.The theme of the conference is “The Attack on Sound Money and Entrepreneurship: Threatening Liberty in America.”
This [...]

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 many [...]

It’s the holiday season and non profits around the world are getting in on the act of giving. Today I bring you three separate contests, in 3 regions :

Don’t forget Atlas’s Sound Money Essay Contest, which awards up to $5000 to the student or professor with an excellent idea on the topic of money.  The [...]

Professor Steve Horwitz, Charles A. Dana Professor of Economics at St. Lawrence University, gave a talk entitled, “Do We Really Need a Central Bank?,” during a student lecture series sponsored by the GMU Economics Society, the Future Freedom Foundation, and the Atlas Sound Money Project.  Atlas’s Sound Money fellows, Tom Duncan and John Robinson, both [...]

As part of Atlas’s Sound Money Project, we are co-sponsoring an “ECONOMIC LIBERTY LECTURE SERIES” together with the GMU Economic Society a student organization of economic majors at George Mason University, and the Future Freedom Foundation. The lecture will feature Professor Steve Horwitz, professor of economics at St. Lawrence University, who will speak on the [...]

With the help of Atlas’s sound money fellows, Tom Duncan and John Robinson (Ph.D. econ students at George Mason University), the Sound Money Project at Atlas is starting to attract attention. Several state and national nonprofit organizations (the likes of the Pacific Research Institute, FEE, and the Illinois Policy Institute) have been contacted in regard [...]

Here is an opportunity for students, scholars, and policymakers trying to make sense of the U.S.’ money woes to articulate in a short essay their ideas and policy prescriptions as to what caused our financial crisis and how best to avert the occurrence of such an event in the future.
Key questions stare at us: should [...]

Marius Gustavson, project manager at Civita where he conducts research on monetary policy, has written a report, “The Financial Crisis: Market Failure or Government Failure,” for this Norwegian free-market think tank . Citing both domestic and global factors as contributing to what he calls the greatest financial crisis since the Great Depression, he finds that [...]

In our desire to reach as many folks who can contribute to sound money literacy as possible, Atlas has recently created a Facebook group to  open a forum where students and professors alike can discuss issues related to sound money. The site offers excellent articles written by monetary scholars and policy experts.
As a reminder to [...]