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SOUND MONEY IS HOT TOPIC ON CAPITOL
HILL
This past Tuesday, at a Capitol Hill event
jointly sponsored by Atlas and FreedomWorks, incoming House Budget
Committee Chairman Paul Ryan praised A Guide to Sound
Money, written by Atlas senior fellow Judy Shelton: "This is
probably the best 25 pages on money that I've read in
a long, long time. I'm going be tweeting and facebooking this all
day and all week long encouraging people to read this."
C-SPAN provided live coverage of
this event launching the Guide, and has archived the entire program
here. The discussion panel featured remarks from Representatives
Ryan and Mike Pence, along with Dr. Judy Shelton, Dr. Lawrence
White (George Mason University), Matt Kibbe (FreedomWorks) and Alex
Chafuen and Brad Lips from Atlas.
Commentary on the event and additional photos
are here. The Guide can be downloaded in its
entirety right here as a PDF.
And the Sound Money Project website can be found here.
ATLAS'S
TEMPLETON FELLOW MARIO VARGAS LLOSA DELIVERS NOBEL
LECTURE
This past week, Atlas
Templeton Leadership Fellow, Mario Vargas Llosa, formally accepted
the 2010 Nobel Prize in
Literature and delivered his Nobel lecture in
Stockholm. Additional information about
Vargas Llosa and his connection to the defense of free-market ideas
can be found here on the Atlas
website.
Don't forget to mark your
calendar for our 2011 Liberty Forum which will
take place November 8-10, 2011, with Mario Vargas Llosa as the
keynote speaker at the Freedom Dinner on November 9.
MARK YOUR
CALENDAR: THE ATLAS EXPERIENCE, APRIL 27-28, 2011, DALLAS,
TX
Our
popular networking conference The Atlas Experience will be
held in Dallas, Texas on April 27 - 28, 2011, featuring keynote
speaker, Johan Norberg, author of In Defense of
Global Capitalism and Financial Fiasco.
The
Atlas Experience will also feature John Mackey, CEO of Whole Foods Market, on
""Improving the World through Free Enterprise"
and John Goodman, CEO and President of the
National Center for Policy Analysis on "What Is a Think
Tank."
The Atlas
Experience will take place in conjunction with the Heritage
Resource Bank which follows our event on April 28 - 29, 2011. For
more information, please visit AtlasNetwork.org or email events@atlasnetwork.org. If you need to speak
with someone at Atlas, please call 201.449.8449.
To guarantee your
accommodations at the Hilton Anatole, our conference
headquarters, please call the hotel at 1.214.748.1200 to make your
reservations early. Don't forget to mention "Atlas" for a
discounted group rate for The Atlas Experience and/or Heritage
Resource Bank. The Hilton Anatole is located at 2201 Stemmons
Freeway, Dallas, Texas 75207.
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Upcoming Deadlines
Deadline for the 2010 Fisher Awards has been extended to
December 15!
In 1990 Atlas established the Sir Antony Fisher
International Memorial Awards to commemorate Atlas's founder's
ideals and achievements. The Fisher Award recognizes institutes
that have published a book, magazine, report, monograph or study
that, in the opinion of the judges, made the greatest contribution
to public understanding of the free society in the past two years.
The deadline to enter is December 15. The winning
institute receives a US$10,000. The award ceremony will take place
in April 2011 at The Atlas
Experience in Dallas, Texas. Contact Antonie Hodge at Antonie.Hodge@AtlasNetwork.org for more
information.
Think Tank MBA Deadline is almost here - December
15!
Atlas's Think Tank MBA is
the most comprehensive training program available for think tank
leaders. Held over a two-week period in the suburbs of Washington
DC, the TTMBA, as it's known, immerses participants in the task of
developing and refining a strategic plan that could be used for
their institute or program back home. The course involves
interactive discussions, classroom exercises, a challenging
day-long group project, and lectures from distinguished outside
speakers. The deadline to apply is December 15! Click here to
apply...
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Network News from Around the
World
Africa
Greg Mills,
of the Brenthurst Foundation in South Africa, authored a new, short
paper on Africa, "Why Is Africa Poor?". Mills
lays the blame for sub-Saharan Africa's underdevelopment on its
elites. Sub-Saharan African countries have not fulfilled their
potential since independence.
Asia
In Catch a Greenie by
His Tail, Buran Mitra, a columnist for WSJ.com, recently
addressed a common theme that underlies a lot of the discussion on
environmental issues - pitting development against environment, and
in the process, discounting people today, for the sake of those who
may come in the distant tomorrow. As a result, political control is
legitimized, and political accountability undermined, economy
stagnates, and environmental quality declines.
Europe
Croatia's
HTV will feature Maurice McTigue, former cabinet
member, New Zealand, Vice-President, Mercatus Center and Adriatic Institute's Executive
Advisory Board Member, focusing on corruption in Croatia and
highlighting principled solutions in addressing the Balkan region's
major obstacle to advancing economic freedom and growth.
McTigue
has been to Croatia on several occasions and addressed citizens and
stakeholders including participants attending the International Leaders Summit
events.
Over
the course of the past four years, McTigue has met with
reform-oriented leaders within Croatia and discussed advancing
reforms with academic, business, civil society and media
leaders.
Viewers can
catch the program online - by
clicking on the date 1/12/2010.
Middle
East
On Nov 27,
2010, Atlas organized in Casablanca a comprehensive audit of the
Moroccan government's performance with regard to economic
freedom.
Atlas's Dr.
Nouh El Harmouzi and Dr. Emmanuel Martin translated the report into
Arabic and French and organized a major conference to propose ways
to improve Morocco's performance, after which Atlas's Arab team
unveiled the Arabic translation of Liberalism, by well known
French free-market economist Prof. Pascal Salin; the book was
co-published by the prestigious Dar Al Ahlia publishing house.
The Arabic
term "al hurriyya iktasadiya" ("the free market") features
prominently in this video which
includes interviews with Atlas's El Harmouzi, Martin, and Dr. Tom
G. Palmer - please note that the interview is in
Arabic.
North
America
National School Choice week
(January 23-29) is an effort to bring together all the groups and
individuals interested in any kind of real choice and get them
involved in hosting events, writing op-eds and generally getting
everyone pumped up about school choice. And Atlas
is IN!
The
Heritage Foundation has
introduced a new series of booklets-Understanding
America-which makes the case for America's place in the
world. The series aims to clarify common foreign policy
misunderstandings by laying out a First Principles-oriented view of
sometimes controversial issues such as sovereignty, isolationism,
and defense spending. The first three booklets of the series can be
found here.
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Latin America
Celebrating 20 years of Libertad y
Desarrollo, the Chilean think tank will hold its 20th
anniversary event on December 18-19 in Santiago and will feature
Nobel laureate Mario Vargas Llosa, former Spanish President José
María Aznar, former Colombian President Álvaro Uribe and current
Chilean President Sebastián Piñera.
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FREEDOM CHAMPION
VIDEO SERIES
The first interview of Atlas's latest video series "Freedom
Champions" featured Africa's Adedayo Thomas and was spotlighted in
the nonprofit section of YouTube receiving almost 13,000
views. See it here.
The second interview is with Gurcharan Das, author of the
best-selling India Unbound and his
most recent book, The Difficulty of Being
Good, is on the subtle art of "dharma," or doing what's
right. Das examines the epic poem, Mahabharata, asking the
question "Why be good?" He is also a historian and public
intellectual that champions school choice and classical liberal
reforms in India. As chairman of the Centre for Civil Society (India), Das has been
a pioneer of India's school voucher program. In 2009, the Indian
government adopted many of the education reforms that CSS was
advocating. Watch this video in Atlas's
"Freedom Champions" series on Gurcharan Das.
Watch for our third interview in the Freedom Champion video series,
coming to Atlas via You Tube in January 2011. Happy New
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