Recognition
Butler and his colleague Madsen Pirie received the 2010 National Free Enterprise Award, and he is one of Total Politics magazine’s Top 50 Political Influencers in the UK, ranking Number 30 on their list.
He has also won the Freedom Medal of the Freedoms Foundation at Valley Forge in the USA, and is a former Vice-President of the Mont Pelerin Society, an international body of classical liberal economists founded by Friedrich Hayek.
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