With all the talk about Healthcare reform taking place in the United States this recent publication from Civitas in the United Kingdom is perfectly timed. The organization offers their thoughts and lessons to learn from the mistakes of the National Health Service in the United Kingdom
The claims by both sides in the emerging furore on [...]

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Individualland in Pakistan will begin a weekly radio series on  several stations throughout Pakistan, on the topic of Freedom of Information. If you’d like to listen to the episodes they will be available online at individualland.com
This evening Executive Director of PERC, [...]

The Mercatus Center just released the first-ever comprehensive ranking of American states and how their public policies affect economic, social and personal freedom. This study improves on prior attempts to score economic freedom for American states by including measures of social and personal freedoms; more variables as well as new more accurate measurements of key [...]

This week Atlas´s Regional Managers, Colleen Dyble (North America & Africa), Allegra Hewel (Latin America), Yiqiao Xu (Asia) and Cindy Cerquitella (Europe) share free market news from around the world.
The Atlas Podcast series appears each Friday with a new theme each week of the month:

Week 1: Network News with Regional Officers
Week 2: An Interview with [...]

 

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Election Day is upon us here in the U.S. I got to the polls at 5:30 AM, a good 30 minutes before they opened here in Arlington, Virginia, and found myself about 30 people back. 15 minutes later the line stretched well around the block, so I imagine the wait times are easily an hour [...]

The Acton Institute has done a great job in recent years of producing compelling, high-quality videos that explore common economic misunderstandings. In one of their more recent videos, they discuss the negative externalities that can arise from good-hearted, but misguided attempts at helping the needy.
hat tip: The Insider

In the early 1990 there were several conferences on the end of the Soviet Union in which I participated. They were directed by Dr. John H. Moore, formerly deputy director of the Hoover Institution and of the National Science Foundation, who then was the director of the International Institute at George Mason University and later [...]

This will be the first in a series of posts highlighting, news, updates, and social impacts accomplished by past Atlas award winners.
Winner of 9 Fisher Awards for previous publications, the Independent Institute is highly regarded for its many great writers. With articles in prominent newspapers such as the Wall Street Journal, to op-eds [...]

Today, the Pacific Research Institute published From Heart Transplants to Hairpieces: The Questionable Benefits of State Benefit Mandates for Health Insurance (the link takes you to an abstract with option to download the PDF). Author John R. Graham digs into 28 actuarial and econometric articles to estimate the cost of mandates that state governments are making [...]