Atlas Network

Atlas Network increases global prosperity by strengthening a network of independent partner organizations that promote individual freedom and are committed to identifying and removing barriers to human flourishing.

[Mises] stimulated the interest, and then the understanding of all the people he met. And he did even more. He stimulated them to action ... Think of Antony Fisher, whose Atlas Economic Research Foundation has brought about the creation of nineteen institutes in twelve countries throughout the world, always mentioning Ludwig von Mises and quoting [Richard M.] Weaver, "Ideas have consequences."

Today, Alberto Benegas Lynch—now in his 70s— continues to toil in the vineyards of Argentine liberty ... His legacy is found in the large number of free-market institutions in Argentina that now exist to promote "ideas sobre la libertad" all over the Argentine nation ... And the movement toward liberty in South America is not limited to Argentina. Thanks in large part to an organization located in Fairfax, Virginia—The Atlas Economic Research Foundation, founded by an Englishman named Antony Fisher—there are now free-market institutions all over South America.

In 1946 Leonard [Read] ... set up the Foundation for Economic Education ... It is astonishing how soon Leonard's action began to produce important results ... Another effect of Leonard's initiative soon followed. Other libertarian foundations were set up in emulation ... Soon Antony Fisher set up like organizations in England, Canada, and eventually here. I recently learned from Antony that he is now watching over eighteen institutions in eleven countries.

Leonard P. Liggio, Executive Vice President of Academics at Atlas Network, passed away October 14, 2014 at the age of 81 ... In 1994, he joined the Atlas Network (then, the Atlas Economic Research Foundation) where he established programs that bridged the worlds of think tanks and academics. In particular, at Atlas Network, he directed The Freedom Project, funded by the John Templeton Foundation. This effort established inter-disciplinary courses on freedom at universities in the U.S. and abroad; in some cases, the courses flowered into ongoing academic centers.

The free market needs and deserves a moral defense. The Atlas Network has partnered with the John Templeton Foundation on a new and important project — The Morality of Free Enterprise — that will build on the Templeton Foundation's online conversation, "Does the Free Market Corrode Moral Character?" The Atlas Network's 2011 Morality of Free Enterprise initiative focuses attention on the moral component of freedom by showing that free enterprise both depends on and reinforces morality.

Peter Goettler: ... If you recall Anthony Fisher, a great champion of liberty who was instrumental in the founding of any number of think tanks and also the Atlas Network, which is an organization that supports free market libertarian think tanks around the world. An organization I used to be on the board of directors of ... He founded the Institute for Economic Affairs in London in 1955 and was involved in founding the Manhattan Institute, and CIS [Centre for Independent Studies] in Australia. I don't think he was involved in founding Fraser, but was involved early on, and Pacific Research [Institute in California] and ultimately Atlas.