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00000) "Too Many Free-Market Think Tanks?" by Mark Skousen | May 2000 |
'Stimulating independent thought... is being done by all too few individuals and institutions, not only in the U.K. but here in the U.S. as well.' -- Milton Friedman (1981)
"Donating money to a few of my favorite free-market organizations used to be a pleasant duty, but now I'm literally inundated with demands from hundreds of think tanks and public-policy groups, all vying for my limited funds. Maybe you're wondering if we really need so many foundations and political organizations. | Back in 1946, there was only one free-market organization in the United States: the Foundation for Economic Education, run by Leonard Read. If you were a classical liberal, you wrote for 'The Freeman' (now 'Ideas for Liberty') and contributed to FEE. (I write a regular column called 'Economics on Trial'; to subscribe, call 800/452-3518, only $35 a year! Or see their web site, www.fee.org) But then along came a British chicken farmer, Sir Anthony Fisher (1915-1988), who established the Institute of Economic Affairs in London. Tony was so enamored with the idea of setting up free-market foundations that he created an organization for the very purpose of creating more institutes around the world: The Atlas Economic Research Foundation, based in Fairfax, Virginia. | … Think tanks sometimes have an objective name, like the Independent Institute or the National Center
for Policy Analysis, while others are purposeful and include in their
title terms like reason, liberty, sound economy or free enterprise.
Others are named after a location like Manhattan or Mont Pelerin. Many are linked to famous classical liberal philosophers like Adam Smith, Ludwig von Mises, Friedrich Hayek, Henry Hazlitt, James Madison, Alexis de Tocqueville, Lord Acton and Edmund Burke."
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000000) "A State without the means of some change is without the means
of its conservation." -- Edmund Burke
0000000) "AT A RECENT think-tank luncheon in Raleigh, economist Bruce J.
Caldwell chatted with a local lawyer active in Democratic party circles.
The man asked Caldwell what his new book was about. 'It's an
intellectual biography of Friedrich Hayek,' replied Caldwell, a
professor at the University of North Carolina, Greensboro. He got a
blank look. 'He was an economist. A libertarian economist.' What an
understatement. Hayek, who died in 1992, was not just any economist. He
won the Nobel Prize in economics in 1974." -- Virginia Postrel, "Friedrich the Great," "Boston Globe," 1/11/2004
00000000) "'Hayek was the central pioneering figure in changing the
course of thought in the twentieth century.' -- Thomas Sowell | 'It is
hardly an exaggeration to refer to the twentieth century as the Hayek
century.' -- 'The New Yorker'" -- The Friedrich Hayek Scholars' Page
000000000) "A welcome new addition to the blogosphere is Cafe Hayek,
named after the Nobel Prizewinning economist F. A. Hayek. Cafe Hayek is
run by two lecturers from the Economics Department at George Mason
University in Virginia: Prof. Russell Roberts and Prof. Don Boudreaux.
Their blog is topical, covering topics like how the market will correct
overzealous offshoring, and why with trade policy why we should avoid
Keynes's phrase: 'In the long run, we're all dead." | A highly
recommended blog.| Get your Adam Smith bust for £30 (small) or £125
(large) from the Adam Smith Shop. | Adam Smith was the great Scottish
philosopher and economist best known for 'The Wealth of Nations', his
pioneering book on free trade and market economics. | A wide selection
of material about Adam Smith is now available on the Adam Smith website.
-- Alex Singleton, "Blog of the week: Cafe Hayek"
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0000000000) "Two new Hayekian blogs started this week. Taking Hayek
Seriously is a group blog with an Austrian and free market orientation.
Cafe Hayek is run by Russ Roberts (he guestblogged for us a few weeks
ago) and Don Boudreaux. Don is my chair and boss at GMU. I am glad to
see he has the blogging bug. I like their subtitle: 'Where Orders
Emerge'." -- Posted by Tyler Cowen on April 17, 2004 "Hayek is
blossoming in the blogosphere," "Marginal Revolution | Small steps
toward a much better world"
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