Atlas Economic Research Foundation

Atlas Economic Research Foundation

The Atlas Economic Research Foundation, also known as the Atlas Network, is a non-profit organization based in the United States which organizes and convenes workshops, offers training, runs prize programs, and provides advisory services in order to continue growing and strengthening an informal network of more than 400 free market think tanks in 84 different countries.

The organization was founded in 1981 by Antony Fisher. After founding the Institute of Economic Affairs in London in 1955, Fisher had helped in the establishment of the Fraser Institute, the Manhattan Institute and the Pacific Research Institute in the 1970s. Fisher conceived of Atlas as a means of institutionalizing his work and therefore replicate the "independent think tank" model all over the world.

The mission of Atlas, according to John Blundell, Atlas' president from 1987 to 1990, "is to litter the world with free-market think-tanks".

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