As a kick off to this year's annual Friedman Conference (Australia's largest gathering of liberty oriented individuals), Atlas Network held a one-day Think Tank Essentials training that brought together 20 participants representing 12 organizations from 4 different countries to learn best practices on strategy, marketing, and de...
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Greg Lindsay, executive director of The Centre for Independent Studies (CIS) in Australia, will be stepping down after almost 42 years as Executive Director of CIS early next year. Lindsay retires as the longest-serving head of an Atlas Network partner organization.
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Competition fosters innovation, but government restrictions, regulations, and other barriers to entry within the health care and medical insurance industries cripple that competitive dynamic. Although the Centre for Independent Studies (CIS), an Atlas Network partner based in Australia, operates in a country with a universal hea...
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People sometimes perceive think tanks as mouthpieces for corporations or interest groups, created only to further an agenda through biased information. This view misses the point entirely, and misrepresents both the nature and the purpose of independent think tanks. “The Role of Think Tanks: A Reply to the Critics,” a recent pap...
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It’s easy for Westerners to take it for granted that they’ll always have access to peaceful, safe forums in which to discuss ideas — but some regions of the world are more hostile to free and open intellectual discussions. That’s why events like the IX International Summer School on Liberty, Law, and Economics in Bakuriani, Geor...
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Market activity fosters peace and cooperation, because making a profit hinges on the desire and ability to make other people happy — a fact that an increasing number of people have discovered throughout the Middle East and North Africa (MENA) since the beginning of the “Arab Spring” protest and reform movements that began six ye...
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Free-market think tanks are proliferating around the world, bringing new standards of economic research and insight to their countries and communities. Only a few such organizations, however, have built a decades-long reputation for sound public policy analysis. This year, Australia-based Atlas Network partner the Centre for Ind...
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Australia’s Abbott Government released its crucial first budget on May 13, 2014. The biggest question: is Prime Minister Tony Abbott’s plan just savage cuts, or actual fiscal responsibility? The Centre for Independent Studies in Sydney has prepared an initial analysis of the budget including the major implications for business,...
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