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Acton Institute

The Acton Institute is a unique resource for those who seek to build prosperity and progress on a foundation of religious liberty, economic freedom, and personal moral responsibility. We work with church leadership, educational institutions, and individuals in business or the ministry --both in the United States and abroad -- to promote an understanding of market principles and to encourage the economic freedom that creates opportunity for all. Inspired by the writings of Lord Acton, the great Cambridge historian and moral thinker, the Institute holds seminars, conducts research, and publishes books, papers, and periodicals that invoke religion as a defender of freedom and advance ideas that strengthen individuals and communities rather than increase the intrusive powers of government.

Adam Smith Institute

The Adam Smith Institute is a free market think-tank, named after the Scottish economist Adam Smith, whose book The Wealth of Nations identified the importance of free markets, fair competition and limited government.

American Enterprise Institute

The American Enterprise Institute for Public Policy Research is dedicated to preserving and strengthening the foundations of freedom- government, private enterprise, vital cultural and political institutions, and a strong foreign policy and national defense- scholarly research, open debate, and publications. Founded in 1943 and located in Washington, D.C., AEI is one of America's largest and most respected "think tanks." AEI research covers economics and trade; social welfare; government tax, spending, regulatory, and legal policies; U.S. politics; international affairs; and U.S. defense and foreign policies.

Atlantic Bridge

The Atlantic Bridge is a group of like-minded conservatives in North America and the United Kingdom who have come together to share ideas, expertise and experience in order to shape the political agenda on both sides of the Atlantic... We believe in personal responsibility, economic opportunity, free trade and both internal and external security.

Atlantic Institute for Market Studies

Independent economic and social policy think-tank. The Institute's chief objectives include: a) initiating and conducting research identifying current and emerging economic and public policy issues facing Atlantic Canadians and Canadians more generally, including research into the economic and social characteristics and potentials of Atlantic Canada and its four constituent provinces; b) investigating and analysing the full range of options for public and private sector responses to the issues identified and to act as a catalyst for informed debate on those options, with a particular focus on strategies for overcoming Atlantic Canada's economic challenges in terms of regional disparities.

Atlas Economic Research Foundation

Atlas Economic Research Foundation helps to create and develop independent public policy research organizations internationally by providing intellectual entrepreneurs with advice, financial support, workshops, and access to a network of leaders who share a commitment to achieving a free society.

Bionomics Institute

The Bionomics Institute is 'a nonprofit educational foundation dedicated to replacing the traditional, mechanistic view of the economy with economy-as-ecosystem thinking

Brookings Institution

In its research, The Brookings Institution functions as an independent analyst and critic, committed to publishing its findings for the information of the public. In its conferences and activities, it serves as a bridge between scholarship and public policy, bringing new knowledge to the attention of decisionmakers and affording scholars a better insight into public policy issues.

Cascade Policy Institute

Cascade Policy Institute explores and promotes answers to Oregon's public policy questions from an individual liberty, limited government, free-market perspective. Cascade is a 501(c)(3) nonprofit, nonpartisan research organization. It neither solicits nor accepts funding from any government.

Cato Institute

The Cato Institute seeks to broaden the parameters of public policy debate to allow consideration of more options that are consistent with the traditional American principles of limited government, individual liberty, and peace. Toward that goal, the Institute strives to achieve greater involvement of the intelligent, concerned lay public in questions of policy and the proper role of government.

Center for Education Reform

An American, independent, non-profit advocacy organization which aims to 'provide support and guidance to .. all who are working to bring fundamental reforms to their schools.

Center for Trade Policy Studies

Part of CATO, the CTPS aims to Increase public understanding of the benefits of free trade and the costs of protectionism.

Centre for European Reform

The Centre for European Reform (CER) is a think-tank devoted to improving the quality of the debate on the future of the European Union. It is a forum for people with ideas from Britain and across the continent to discuss the many social, political and economic challenges facing Europe. It seeks to work with similar bodies in other EU countries, in North America and elsewhere in the world.

Centre for Independent Studies, Australia

The Centre for Independent Studies has been Australasia's leading public policy research institute or 'think-tank' since 1976. The Centre emphasises the role of the free market in an open society and other voluntary processes in providing many of the goods and services normally supplied by the compulsory methods of government. The Centre is non-partisan and independent in both funding and research.

Centre for Policy Studies

The Centre for Policy Studies (CPS) is an independent centre right think tank which develops and publishes public policy proposals and arranges seminars and lectures on topical policy issues, as part of its mission to influence policy around the world. It also maintains a range of informal contacts with politicians, policymakers, civil servants and the press, in Britain and abroad.

Centre for Transport Studies

Based at the University College London, the CTS' site provides events news and online articles.

Centro de Estudios Publicos (Center of Public Studies), Chile

CEP- is a private non partisan non profit academic foundation. It is engaged in cultivating, analyzing, and disseminating the values and principles on which a free and democratic order is based. The center is a forum to discuss the issues and problems that affect Chilean people. CEP plays a leading role in fostering a national debate on issues ranging from new developments in the social sciences to the concepts and values that support a free social order. Available in English and Spanish.

Citizens for a Sound Economy

Citizens for a Sound Economy have a fundamental belief that a strong and vibrant free-market economic system offers the best hope for creating opportunity and improving quality of life. They advocate less government, lower taxes and less regulation.

Competitive Enterprise Institute

The Competitive Enterprise Institute is a non-profit public policy organization dedicated to the principles of free enterprise and limited government. We believe that consumers are best helped not by government regulation but by being allowed to make their own choices in a free marketplace.

Demos

Demos is an independent think tank and research institute based in London. Launched in 1993, its role is to help reinvigorate public policy and political thinking and to develop radical solutions to long term problems

EKOME, Greece

EKOME was founded in 1987 as a not-for-profit, non-partisan and independent organisation. Its aims are to: commission studies dealing with social, economic and political problems in combination with the Greek welfare state, and disseminate the principles of the free market economy and liberalism with publications, lectures, open forum, discussion groups, etc. E.K.O.ME supports free market economies, less government and a strong Greek presence in international politics. Available in Greek and English.

European Movement

Arguing for Britain's membership of the single currency, the European Movement brands itself as Britain's leading pro-European organisation.

Evergreen Freedom Foundation

The mission of the Evergreen Freedom Foundation is to advance individual liberty, free enterprise and responsible government. Our efforts center around providing public policy research and alternatives in the following foundational areas: state budget and tax policies; welfare, health care and education reform; and citizenship and governance issues.

Foundation for Research on Economics and the Environment

Pioneers in free-market approaches to solving environmental problems.

Free Market Foundation, South Africa

The Free Market Foundation is an independent policy research and education organisation founded in 1975 to promote the principles of limited government, economic freedom and individual liberty. Funding is received from members (corporate, organisational and individual), sponsorships and the sale of publications. Training and entrepreneurship development is provided in co-operation with the Foundation for Economic and Business Development

Freedom Institute

The Freedom Institute is a free-market think tank headquartered in Dublin, Ireland

Friedrich-Naumann-Foundation, Germany

As a foundation for liberal policy the Friedrich-Naumann-Foundation is committed to freedom - freedom of opinion and action, in all walks of life and all over the world. Such freedom can only be achieved if we can win as many people as possible for the cause of liberalism. Only they that understand political contexts can change them. And only they that know what freedom means can take up the cause of liberalism and democracy. That is why, with our partners in over 80 countries, we are working to change people's awareness - and their patterns of behaviour. Available in German and English.

Globalization Institute

The Globalization Institute is a liberal European think tank focussing on development economics and international trade.

Hayek Institute

The F.A. v. Hayek Institute was founded in 1993 to commemorate the work of Nobel Laureate Friedrich August von Hayek, and to promote the ideas of the Austrian School of Economics. As a private and independent academic research institution it is modelled predominantly after Stanford University's Hoover Institute, the IEA in London, and the ICER in Turin. The Institute cooperates extensively with other like-minded think tanks, and organizes academic conferences, seminars, and lectures tackling current economic issues. The F.A. v. Hayek Institute funds and produces academic studies, in the interest of providing concrete data and logical analysis to a range of public policy debates. The Hayek Institute is publisher of the successful book series The International Library of Austrian Economics. Contributions to the Hayek Institute are tax deductible.

Heritage Foundation

Founded in 1973, The Heritage Foundation is a research and educational institute -- a think tank -- whose mission is to formulate and promote conservative public policies based on the principles of free enterprise, limited government, individual freedom, traditional American values, and a strong national defense.

Hispanic American Center for Economic Research

Hoover Institution

The principles of individual, economic, and political freedom; private enterprise; and representative government were fundamental to the vision of the Institution's founder, Herbert Hoover. By collecting knowledge, generating ideas, and disseminating both, the Institution seeks to secure and safeguard peace, improve the human condition, and limit government intrusion into the lives of individuals.' The Hoover Institution contains one of the largest private archives and most complete libraries on economic, political, and social change in the twentieth century.

Hudson Institute

Hudson Institute is an internationally recognized public policy research organization that forecasts trends and develops solutions for governments, businesses and the public. Founded in 1961 by the late Herman Kahn, the Indianapolis-based not-for-profit 501(c)(3) organization..is strong in both domestic and international issues..Hudson Institute advocates and implements a practical approach to public policy research. Such efforts require going into the field to complete research and offering technical assistance to various industries and institutions. Hudson is a nonpartisan futurist organization that is known for its healthy skepticism of conventional wisdom and its guarded optimism about solving tomorrow's problems today.

Ideas on Liberty: In Defense of Property Rights and Capitalism

Homepage for the Foundation of Economic Education's magazine, Ideas on Liberty. This is an article by Tibor R. Machan on property rights and capitalism

Institute for Economic Studies Europe

The aim of The Institute for Economic Studies Europe is to stand at the center of a worldwide network of students, scholars and other intellectuals. Since 1989, the Institute has aimed at discovering, developing and supporting the most outstanding people it could find among students, scholars and other intellectuals who share an interest in exploring and applying the principles of classical liberalism. Available in French and English.

Institute for Fiscal Studies

The Institute for Fiscal Studies is a research institute which exists to provide top quality economic analysis independent of government, political party or any other vested interest. IFS exerts substantial influence through publications, the media, close contacts with civil servants and regular meetings with Cabinet and Shadow Cabinet members. Our research looks particularly at the UK tax system, considering the likely effects of fiscal policy on every section of the population.

Institute for Free Enterprise

Institute for Higher Education Policy

A non-profit, non-partisan organization whose mission is to foster access to and quality in postsecondary education.

Institute for Humane Studies

The mission of IHS is to support the achievement of a freer society by discovering and facilitating the development of talented, productive students, scholars, and other intellectuals who share an interest in liberty and who demonstrate the potential to help change the current climate of opinion to one more congenial to the principles and practice of freedom.

Institute for Market Economics (IME)

IME is the fist and oldest independent economic policy think tank in Bulgaria. Its mission is to elaborate and advocate market-based solutions to challenges citizens of Bulgaria and the region face in reforms.

Institute for Public Policy Research

The Institute for Public Policy Research (IPPR) is Britain's leading centre-left think tank. Its aim is to promote and contribute to a greater understanding of key social, economic and political questions.

Institute for the Study of Civil Society

Institute for the Study of Civil Society (CIVITAS) was launched early in 2000 as an independent registered charity (No. 1036909). It is politically non-partisan and is financed by private donations. It accepts no government funding. The underlying purpose of CIVITAS is to deepen public understanding of the legal, institutional and moral framework that makes a free and democratic society possible. In particular, the goal of CIVITAS studies is a better division of responsibilities between government and civil society. The term civil society is intended to emphasise that in social affairs the alternatives to government are not exhausted by commercial services alone. There are also mutual, church and charitable organisations, quite apart from the informal support of neighbours and within the family.

Institute of Directors

Institute of Directors(IOD)aims to help directors to achieve their leadership responsibilities in creating wealth for the benefit of business and society as a whole.

Institute of Public Affairs, Australia

The Institute of Public Affairs is Australia's oldest private-sector 'think-tank'. It was established in 1943 and has been a significant player in the public policy debate ever since. Our aim is to promote an understanding and appreciation of the free society and free enterprise and, in so doing, to advance the interests of the Australian people.

Instituto Liberal de Rio de Janeiro, Brazil

Instituto Liberal was founded in Rio de Janeiro, Brazil, in 1983, by Donald Stewart Jr., as a nonprofit institution. Its principal objective, as simple as it is ambitious, was and is: To persuade brazilian society of the advantages of a liberal order.

International Institute for Sustainable Development

Contains information on business, climate change, communities & livelihoods, knowledge networks, natural resources, public policy and trade. A number of pdf documents and working papers are available as well as a multimedia resource for environment and development policy makers.

International Policy Network

Promotes the advancement of learning by research and seeks to encourage the sharing of ideas by intellectuals and others interested in public-policy issues that have international implications.

Liberalni Institut, Czech Republic

The Liberal Institute is an independent, nonprofit organization for the development and application of liberal ideas and programs based on the principles of classical liberalism. The Liberal Institute was founded on February 28th, 1990 by the leaders of the F.A. Hayek Liberal Association, an organization of young teachers of economics and philosophy that came into being in the earliest days of the 'Velvet' Revolution in order to support the forthcoming social changes. Available in Czech and English.

Ludwig Von Mises Institute

The Ludwig von Mises Institute is the research and educational center of classical liberalism and the Austrian School of economics. In the tradition of the Mises Institute's two mentors, Ludwig von Mises and Murray N. Rothbard, the Institute seeks a radical shift in the intellectual climate. The goal: to restore a high place for theory in the social sciences, to encourage a revival of critical historical research, to promote the free and enterprising commonwealth, and to undermine statism in all its forms. In this cause, the Mises Institute defends the market economy, private property, sound money, peaceful international relations, and opposes all forms of government intervention as economically and socially destructive.

Maxim Institute

Maxim Institute is an independent research and public policy think tank. Our mission is to foster ideas and leadership that enable freedom, justice and compassion to flourish in New Zealand. As a think tank, Maxim Institute engages in the following core activities:producing research and informed analysis of contemporary issues;developing and promoting sound public policy;communicating our research findings and policy initiatives to the decision-makers and leaders of today;training and mentoring tomorrow’s leaders for all areas of community,political and business life;equipping New Zealanders to become better informed and more effective agents of change in their community.

Mercatus Center

Formerly the 'Center for Market Processes', the Mercatus Center at George Mason University is a non-partisan education, research, and outreach organization that works with scholars, policy experts, and government officials to bridge academic theory and real-world practice.

Montreal Economic Institute, Canada

An independent, non-profit, non-partisan research and educational institute based in Quebec, Canada which endeavours to promote an economic approach to the study of public policy issues. Available in French and English.

Nassau Institute (NI), Bahamas

The Nassau Institute (NI) is an independent non-political non-profit organization that promotes economic growth, employment and entrepreneurial activity in the Bahamas. It believes that this can best be achieved with a free market economy and a society that embraces the rule of law, the right of private property and the values of family, learning, honesty and hard work

National Bureau of Economic Research

The National Bureau of Economic Research (NBER) is a private, nonprofit, nonpartisan research organization dedicated to promoting a greater understanding of how the economy works. Research is conducted by more than 500 university professors around the country, the leading scholars in their fields.

National Center for Policy Analysis

The National Center for Policy Analysis (NCPASM) is a nonprofit public policy research institute. Its website offers a wealth of analysis, debate, and in-depth research from around the world.

Novacivitas, Belgium

By creating this website, Nova Civitas wanted to add something to the development of the ideals of personal and economic freedom in Flanders and Europe. Available in English and Dutch.

Open Europe

Open Europe is an independent think tank set up by some of the UK’s leading business people to contribute bold new thinking to the debate about the direction of the EU.

Pacific Research Institute

The Pacific Research Institute for Public Policy promotes the principles of individual freedom and personal responsibility. The Institute believes these principles are best encouraged through policies that emphasize a free economy, private initiative, and limited government. By focusing on public policy issues such as education, the environment, law economics, and social welfare, the Institute strives to foster a better understanding of the principles of a free society among leaders in government, academia, the media, and the business community.

Pioneer Institute

Pioneer is a non-partisan think tank dedicated to challenging conventional wisdom by looking for more innovative solutions to public policy problems. Underlying all of its work is the belief that individual freedom and responsibility, limited and accountable to government, and the expanded application of free market principles contribute to greater human dignity, happiness, and economic prosperity.

Policy Exchange

Politeia

Politea, a forum for social and economic thinking, opened in November 1995 as a focus for thinking on social and economic policy. Its aim is to encourage reflection, discussion and debate about the place of the state in the daily lives of men and women across the range of issues which affect them, from employment and tax to education, health and pensions.

Progressive Vision

A campaigning think tank which investigates and advocates radical, liberal solutions to the problems facing British society today. Progressive Vision is concerned that politicians of all parties appear addicted to centralised, state-initiated, authoritarian public sector approaches to the overwhelming majority of the UK’s ills. It asserts that a dramatic extension of personal freedom would not only lead to more fulfilling lives for individual men and women, but also to a more peaceful, tolerant and prosperous society.

RAND Corporation

From its inception in the days following World War II, RAND Corporation (RAND)has focused on the nation's most pressing policy problems. High-quality, objective research on national security became the institution's first hallmark. In the 1960s, and in the same spirit, RAND began addressing major problems of domestic policy as well. Today, RAND researchers operate on a uniquely broad front, assisting public policymakers at all levels, private sector leaders in many industries, and the public at large in efforts to strengthen the nation's economy, maintain its security, and improve its quality of life. They do so by analyzing choices and developments in many areas, including national defense, education and training, health care, criminal and civil justice, labor and population, science and technology, community development, international relations, and regional studies.

Reason Foundation

Founded in 1978, the Los Angeles-based Reason Foundation is a national research and educational organization that explores and promotes the twin values of rationality and freedom as the basic underpinnings of a good society. In advocating public policies based upon individual liberty and responsibility and a free-market approach, the Reason Foundation turns to practical policy research and insightful commentary -- not idealistic rhetoric.

Reform

Reform is an independent, non-party think tank whose declared mission is to set out a better way to deliver public services and economic prosperity. By its own account, it does not regard itself as conservative with either a small or a capital 'c', and can live with the description 'free market', but regards itself as a liberal with a small 'l'. Its expertise lies in its detailed work on individual spending programmes, such as health, where it has done truly ground-breaking work. Reform has a very useful and free daily e-mail which summarises all the daily political, economic and spending programme news and arrives around mid-day in Britain. Reform also sends out regular e-mail bulletins analysing the latest developments in public policy. These are also free.

School Choices

An organisation arguing for free educational markets.

Social Affairs Unit

The Social Affairs Unit (SAU) addresses social, economic and cultural issues with an emphasis on the value of personal responsibility. We research, challenge and debate issues from welfare to warfare, always seeking to draw out the role of the individual's obligations.

Social Market Foundation

The Social Market Foundation was established in 1992. Its main activity is to commission and publish original papers by independent academic and other experts on key topics in the economic and social fields, with a view to stimulating public discussion on the performance of markets and the social framework within which they operate.

Stockholm Network

The Stockholm Network is Europe's only dedicated service organisation for market-orientated think-tanks.

Swiss Institute for International Economics and Applied Economic Research

Contains a number of downloadable articles on labour-related issues.

The Adam Smith Society

The Adam Smith Society is a group of economists, lawyers, academics and other professionals dedicated to the diffusion of free market ideas and competitive market - led economics. It is a non - profit organisation, funded entirely through subscriptions and sponsorships of the events it organises.

The Foundation for Law, Justice and Society

The Foundation for Law, Justice and Society is a socio-legal think tank affiliated with the Centre for Socio-Legal Studies at the University of Oxford. Founded in 2005, the mission of the Foundation is to study, reflect on, and promote an understanding of the role that law plays in society. This is achieved by analysing issues of contemporary interest and importance through our three programmes: -Courts and the Making of Public Policy -Rule of Law in China: Chinese Law and Business -The Social Contract Revisited The Foundation takes a cross-disciplinary approach, drawing on the work of scholars and researchers, and aims to make its work easily accessible to practitioners and professionals, whether in government, business, or the law.

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