Four and a half million Italians live in absolute poverty despite an intricate welfare system. The Italian tax system has impeded the Italian economy from achieving its full potential, says Istutito Bruno Leoni (IBL) – an Atlas Network partner organization based in Torino, Italy – which has put forth an ambitious reform proposal...
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Students today have grown up in a world where the 27-year television juggernaut The Simpsons has always existed, and the show provides a nearly endless array of examples of economic principles in action. In 2016, Italy-based Atlas Network partner Istituto Bruno Leoni (IBL) translated the book Homer Economicus: The Simpsons and E...
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For millennia, most people throughout the world lived in grinding poverty, but global wealth began to accelerate rapidly around 200 years ago. What changed to allow this “Great Enrichment”? For her rigorous work examining the cultural and economic underpinnings of modern wealth, Italian Atlas Network partner Instituto Bruno Leon...
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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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The inaugural Europe Liberty Forum, held June 8–9 in London and co-hosted by the Institute of Economic Affairs (IEA), focused on spreading the ideas of freedom to millions in the United Kingdom, Europe, and beyond. “Think tanks should make life of all established political parties uncomfortable,” said Member of Parliament Dougla...
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When many countries exist side by side in the same region, they have an opportunity to attract residents, tourism, and economic growth through policy competition — and people can make an informed choice about where to go to avoid overbearing government restrictions. The Nanny State Index, a new project from the European Policy I...
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Don Felícito Yanaqué, when he was a schoolboy, never had shoes. When we meet him, age 55, in Mario Vargas Llosa’s 2013 novel The Discreet Hero, first published in English in 2015, he is the self-made man next door. He has a wife that never made him happy, two sons, and a little transport business. People like him rarely appear i...
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When countries band together to facilitate increased trade and monetary stability, they have a vast potential for new forms of economic activity and growth. In a recent Cato Institute policy forum, Massimiliano Trovato, a research fellow with Italian Atlas Network partner Istituto Bruno Leoni, argued that although the European U...
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On the occasion of the 25th anniversary of the Lithuanian Free Market Institute (LFMI), and nearly one year since the organization won the 2014 Templeton Freedom Award, the Vilnius-based think tank welcomed CEOs from Atlas Network partner organizations across Europe and the United States for the inaugural Transatlantic CEO Summi...
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To achieve tangible, real-world impact in the think tank world, measuring the outcomes and results of our work is a key ingredient of the equation. In order advance this goal, Atlas Network has proposed using reputable international rankings or indices and then objectively assessing the results of think tanks’ work as they try t...
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Six European think tanks recently launched EPICENTER (the European Policy Information Center) in Brussels, Belgium. EPICENTER is a new project aimed at providing “decision-makers with research and insight on a number of key economic issues,” developing free-market solutions to some of the European Union’s (EU) most daunting chal...
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The Italian TV channel Reteconomy, appearing at channel 816 on the British Sky Broadcast, will regularly feature a “Point of View” segment featuring experts from Istituto Bruno Leoni, one of Italy’s leading free-market think tanks.
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