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• Atlas Network, formerly known as the Atlas Economic Research Foundation, is a non-governmental 501(c)(3) organization based in the United States that provides training, networking and grants for libertarian and free-market groups around the world.
According to Le Monde, Atlas Network has about 500 partner organizations in nearly 100 countries.
HISTORY.
Atlas Network was founded in 1981 by Sir Antony Fisher, a British entrepreneur, who was influenced by economist F.A Hayek and his book, The Road to Serfdom.
After founding the Institute of Economic Affairs in London in 1955, Fisher helped establish the Fraser Institute, the Manhattan Institute and the Pacific Research Institute in the 1970s.
In 1981, Atlas Network helped economist Hernando de Soto found the Institute for Liberty and Democracy (ILD) in Peru and invested in the Institut Economique de Paris (IEP) in France.
In 1983, Fisher helped launch the National Center for Policy Analysis (NCPA) in Dallas, Texas and the Jon Thorlaksson Institute in Iceland.
That organization was replaced by the Icelandic Research Centre for Innovation and Economic Growth.
Atlas Network helped establish the Hong Kong Centre for Economic Research in 1987 and the Liberty Institute in New Delhi in 1996.
Margaret Thatcher, F.A. Hayek, and Milton Friedman formally endorsed the organization.
Fisher conceived of Atlas Network as a means to connect various think tanks via a global network through which the organizations could learn best practices from one another and "pass the best research and policy ideas from one to the other, and so avoid the need to reinvent the wheel." Atlas would receive funding from American and European businesses and think tanks to coordinate and organize neoliberal organizations in the developing world.
With few exceptions, all affiliated think tanks were established with Atlas Network funding.
The organization has been described as "self replicating, a think tank that creates think tanks." It is not named after Ayn Rand's novel Atlas Shrugged.
The 2019 and 2020 Global Go To Think Tank Index Report, ranked the Atlas Network as the 54th "Top Think Tanks in the United States." Atlas Network's Templeton Freedom Award, supported by Templeton Religion Trust and named after Sir John Templeton, was established in 2004.
In 2015, the Acton Institute was awarded $100,000 for its documentary film, "Poverty, Inc." In 2020, the Center for Indonesian Policy Studies won the award for their Affordable Food for the Poor Initiative.
In August 2021, Atlas Network partnered with Cuban anti-communism activist Ruhama Fernandez to share her story after Fernandez was arrested for criticizing the Cuban government.
Fernandez was interviewed by Antonella Marty, Associate Director of Atlas Network's Center for Latin America, on her Hablemos Libertad podcast.
The chief executive officer of Atlas Network is Brad Lips.
Lips joined Atlas Network, then known as Atlas Economic Research Foundation, in 1998 and became CEO in 2009.
Matt Warner is President. ... https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Atlas_Network
• see also: Economy - Economic systems - Mixed economies - Social economy - Nonprofit organizations - Canada - Fraser Institute
• Economy - Economic systems - Mixed economies - Social economy - Nonprofit organizations - 501(c)(3) organizations - Manhattan Institute for Policy Research
• Economy - Economic systems - Mixed economies - Social economy - Nonprofit organizations - 501(c)(3) organizations - Pacific Research Institute