Pacific Legal Foundation (PLF) has won the 2019 North America Liberty Award for their multi-year project, “Overturning the Unconstitutional Regulatory State in the U.S. Supreme Court,” which focuses on their efforts to advance strategic, precedent-setting litigation that ends judicial deference to regulatory overreach. The award...
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In Argentina, one case of a merger success is the Libertad y Progreso Foundation (L&P). This organization emerged in May 2011 as a result of the merger of three others: 1) Republican Forum led by Agustín Etchebarne, 2) Market Research Center of Argentina (CIIMA, for its Spanish initials) led by Aldo Abram, and 3) Center for Futu...
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In the world of for-profit corporations, organizations can grow organically but they can also do so through mergers and acquisitions. Conversely, non-profit organizations typically do not have access to this latter path in order to fuel their growth. But this does not mean that the fundamental justifications for or potential ben...
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With more than 500 people from around the world in attendance, the 7th annual Australian Libertarian Society Friedman Conference in Sydney was an exciting opportunity for pro-liberty activists to celebrate classical liberal ideas, spend time with fellow travelers engaged in policy change, and enjoy a few days in Australia’s most...
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The Bastiat Society of Venezuela is accepting submissions for their annual Bastiat Essay Contest, which encourages writers to address themes related to the free market ideas of French economist Frédéric Bastiat. The contest is sponsored by the American Institute for Economic Research, an Atlas Network partner.
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By using storytelling techniques and practical tools gained through Atlas Network’s Lights, Camera, Liberty film workshop, Goldwater Institute's new video “Arizona Blow-Dry Bar Owner Untangles Red Tape” features compelling interviews that explain how, until very recently, massive barriers prevented many Arizonans from building c...
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Before the start of the 2019 World Taxpayers’ Conference and Australian Libertarian Society’s Friedman Conference in Sydney, Australia, 27 think tank leaders from 14 countries participated in an Atlas Network workshop to learn about how to use targeted messaging to make a stronger impact. The first-ever Strategic MarCom 360 work...
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We are saddened by the passing of lawyer María Celsa Rodríguez Mercado, honorable Vice President of Fundación Internacional Latinoamérica Libre.
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Sarojini Nagar Babu Market is one of the most popular shopping bazaars in New Delhi, with hundreds of vendors calling out to shoppers as they walk by. Everything you can think of is for sale—food, clothing, books, furniture. But if you're looking for a stylish bracelet, Dinesh Kumar Dixit might just be the man you need. For the...
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The high cost of maintaining a business in Peru is already burdensome, but for a woman owning a hardware store—a profession mostly dominated by men—Verónica knew that she would have to put in double the work in order to succeed. Still, she had a passion for her work. She knew her product from years of working in a hardware store...
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At Juana Manso Elementary, a school in the Dock Sud neighborhood of Buenos Aires, Argentina, it’s a thrill to watch students use computers to explore new corners of the world—but easy access to technology wasn’t always an option. Computers were just too expensive for the school to afford, and so hardworking teachers were using o...
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In the world of social media, apps where users can swipe left or swipe right make it easy for people to make their preferences known. While these apps have been primarily associated with dating trends, Argentina-based Fundación Libertad decided it’s time to let the people swipe left or right on how their tax dollars are being sp...
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India’s poorest people labor under regulations that keep them from creating opportunity for themselves—and their plight often goes unnoticed. But change is possible for this enormous and politically diverse nation, and promoting social change through public policy provides a path for reform that will impact millions.
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Every country has its own Tax Freedom Day—the point on the calendar when taxpayers have collectively earned enough money to pay the country’s tax bill for the year. Libertarian Club Libek, an Atlas Network partner in Serbia, annually calculates the exact date of Tax Freedom Day and promotes this not-so-happy holiday as a real-li...
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The Institute for Economic Affairs in London is now accepting essays for the third annual Richard Koch Breakthrough Competition. A first-place prize of £50,000 GBP (about $64,000 USD) will be awarded to the best and boldest entry outlining a free-market “Breakthrough” policy “to give everyone in society, whatever their backgroun...
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With political leaders on both sides of the Rio Grande questioning the merits of open trade and migration, Atlas Network’s Center for Latin America is calling attention to facts about free enterprise that are often overlooked.
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Atlas Network President and Senior Fellow Matt Warner has been named one of five recipients of America’s Future Foundation’s 2019 Buckley Award, which recognizes outstanding young conservatives and libertarians for their above-and-beyond professional service to advance freedom.
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Sin taxes, which are levied on items considered undesirable or harmful, such as alcohol or tobacco products, and have become increasingly popular worldwide. In their newly released Nanny State Index, European Policy Information Center (EPICENTER), an Atlas Network partner in Belgium, argues that sin taxes are frivolous and count...
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Just days before the start of Atlas Network’s 2019 Europe Liberty Forum, a group of Think Tank CEOs from across the United States and Europe gathered in Athens, Greece to discuss populism and organizational change. Each prepared by reading and watching a range of materials including Timbro’s Authoritarian Populism Index, a ficti...
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Throughout Latin America, it is clear that the support base for home-grown populism lies in the state sector—state-owned companies created and maintained by successive governments. As a general rule, they have proved to be deficient and unproductive, and their final product is invariably a string of failures and poor economic re...
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More than 200 champions of liberty from 44 countries met in Athens, Greece for Europe Liberty Forum, Atlas Network’s annual convention of think tank professionals and allies who meet to discuss the specific challenges facing European organizations and to engage each other on solutions that will promote free-market opportunities...
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Nataliya Melnyk of Bendukidze Free Market Center has won the 2019 Think Tank Shark Tank—Europe competition for her pitch to create an educational course for middle school students. Generously sponsored by the Smith Family Foundation, the regional Think Tank Shark Tank competitions award $10,000 in seed funding to the winner.
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Kyiv-based EasyBusiness has won the 2019 Europe Liberty Award for its work to toward ending the ban on the sale of agricultural land in Ukraine. EasyBusiness developed a comprehensive land reform strategy that included strategic litigation, which is helping to end a moratorium of the sale of agricultural land. Its plans included...
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Association Multi (Multi) has been awarded the 2019 Award for Student Outreach in Europe for “Education for Students and Young Leaders,” a lecture series on contemporary topics such as cryptocurrencies, behavioral economics, and marijuana legalization. As a result of Multi’s work, classical liberal ideas have been growing in Bos...
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Atlas Network is delighted to announce the finalists for the 2019 Europe Liberty Award, which will be presented on May 9 at the Europe Liberty Forum in Athens, Greece. The four finalists are EasyBusiness (Ukraine), Lithuanian Free Market Institute (LFMI, Lithuania), Libertarian Club—Libek (Serbia), and Ukrainian Economic Freedom...
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Atlas Network is excited to announce the finalists of this year’s Think Tank Shark Tank — Europe competition, which is sponsored by the Smith Family Foundation and will be held during Europe Liberty Forum from May 9-10 in Athens, Greece. Three think tank professionals will compete in a showcase of the region’s most exciting new...
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[ARLINGTON, VA – MAY 1, 2019] Atlas Network is delighted to announce the Center for African Prosperity, a new opportunity to focus on the role that free markets, property rights, and the rule of law have in creating the conditions for people to thrive in the region. Under the direction of internationally-recognized business entr...
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There is no lack of talented, hard-working people in Honduras, yet high poverty and unemployment rates continue to plague the country. One reason for this is the significant barriers to entry for starting a business, which has left many Hondurans—especially those less fortunate—unable to pursue careers or earn a living. With lit...
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Milton Friedman once noted that the role of think tanks is to “primarily keep options open, to have available alternatives, so when the brute force of events makes a change inevitable, there is an alternative available to change it.” Friedman’s sentiment is often cited as a kind of value proposition for think tanks around the gl...
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Atlas Network’s regular New York event series, Global Policy Perspectives (GPP), brings world-class think tank leaders to Manhattan to deliver talks on timely and topical policy issues affecting their countries and how the work their organizations do fit into those landscapes. On April 25, 115 people gathered together in New Yor...
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