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TCPalm
March 31, 2018
It has support from strange bedfellows: free-market capitalists and environmentalists are together on this one. Yet not one representative or senator from Florida has gotten behind it. A group of Everglades and estuary advocates is pushing to change that. In a letter sent Wednesday to U.S. Sen. Bill NelsonÃâà...
Brattleboro Reformer
March 31, 2018
Whenever people begin to glimpse the reality that non-market health care works for the entire rest of the world, the fog machines pump furiously until all reality is once again obscured. "Free market" think tanks pockmark the American landscape, continually pumping out the fog. The halls of the CongressÃâà...
Outside Magazine
March 31, 2018
“It does not look like Congress is going to allocate additional dollars for managing our public lands,” says Holly Fretwell, a fellow with the Property and Environment Research Center, a free-market think tank. “That's nothing new. It doesn't matter what administration is in there—getting more dollars for publicÃâà...
InsideSources
March 30, 2018
The Competitive Enterprise Institute (CEI), a free-market think tank, called for the investigation in a letter Wednesday. Pearce, according to the letter, provided advance notice that the board would be vacating the decision from last year. The CEI letter requests that the investigation determine whether he hadÃâà...
The Union Leader
March 30, 2018
CONCORD — On the same day school administrators and teacher representatives urged lawmakers to reject a school choice bill, SB 193, the Josiah Bartlett Center for Public Policy and EdChoice released a report on school spending. The report by the free-market think tank shows that New HampshireÃâà...
Bluegrass Institute
March 28, 2018
(FRANKFORT, Ky.) –– The Bluegrass Institute for Public Policy Solutions, Kentucky's first and only free-market think tank, commends the state Senate for doing its part to pull the plug on KentuckyWired, the creation of former Democratic Gov. Steve Beshear and big-spending Republican 5th DistrictÃâà...
The Courier-Journal
March 28, 2018
A statement released Monday by executives of the Bluegrass Institute, a free-market think tank, and Bruce Maples, publisher of the progressive Forward Kentucky blog, said, that the bill as unveiled last week, "eviscerates the commonwealth's open records and meetings laws by authorizing public officialsÃâà...
InsideSources
March 28, 2018
The Competitive Enterprise Institute (CEI), a free-market think tank, called for the investigation in a letter Wednesday. NLRB member Mark Gaston Pearce, according to the letter, improperly disclosed internal board deliberations. The letter alleges that the disclosures might violate internal agency rules.
Washington Examiner
March 28, 2018
The free-market think tank R Street Institute is looking to defend the federally overseen electricity markets from coal and nuclear power plant owners looking for incentives to continue operating in a market dominated by low-cost natural gas. R Street described the effort in a lengthy letter sent Wednesday toÃâà...
Complete Colorado
March 27, 2018
It's also true that I work for the free market Independence Institute (II), an organization that spends almost as much time criticizing Republicans as we do Democrats. There's no political love lost ... Amy Cooke is Executive Vice President of the Independence Institute, a free market think tank in Denver.
DeSmog UK
March 26, 2018
How cosy is the relationship between free market ideologues pushing for greater deregulation and the government? Very, it turns out. The IFT (formerly the Institute for Free Trade), a hard-Brexit thinktank tied to the UK's climate science denial network enjoyed strong support from two governmentÃâà...
The Australian
March 25, 2018
Free-market think tank the Institute of Public Affairs has warned that Labor's plan to axe cash refunds for excess dividend imputation credits will affect every Australian with a superannuation account, by changing the relative benefits of investing in Australian shares. A policy brief by former Department ofÃâà...
Education Week (blog)
March 24, 2018
Schneider is now a vice president and institute fellow at the American Institutes for Research and College Measures and a visiting scholar at the American Enterprise Institute, a free-market think tank. From 2005 to 2008, he was the commissioner of the National Center for Education Statistics, making himÃâà...
The Beacon (blog)
March 15, 2018
Free market think tanks are in the business of expanding individual liberty. This often requires persuading people to think differently on certain issues. That said, think tanks invest few, if any, resources in studying the science of persuasion. What is the best approach to change people's opinion? How doÃâà...
Washington Examiner
March 14, 2018
Arthur Brooks, the president of the American Enterprise Institute, will step down after nearly a decade of leading the conservative think tank. ... of a prominent think tank, Brooks was perhaps best known among conservatives and Republicans on Capitol Hill for his ability to describe free-market economistÃâà...
Bluegrass Institute
March 10, 2018
BluegrassBeaconLogo Editor's note: The Bluegrass Beacon is a weekly syndicated statewide newspaper column posted on the Bluegrass Institute website after being released to and published by newspapers statewide. Political leaders are justifiably pessimistic that throwing more dollars – even recordÃâà...
City A.M.
March 10, 2018
Free market think tank the Institute of Economic Affairs (IEA) has poached Shanker Singham and three of his team from rival firm Legatum. ... It will also lead on the IEA's work on Epicenter– an independent initiative of eight leading think tanks from across Europe - and have responsibility for the IEA's outputÃâà...
Splinter (blog)
March 10, 2018
It's a theory that the Kochs have clearly followed; between 2005 and 2015, their foundation has spent more than $144 million on universities, to seed research centers and free-market think tanks, according to an analysis by Greenpeace. One wealthy donor, industrialist John Olin, actually began investing inÃâà...
Madison.com
March 10, 2018
UW-Madison think tank sponsors essay contest on whether to abolish birthright citizenship ... The center seeks to promote understanding and critical appreciation of the cardinal democratic principles, like religious and political freedom; the free market; educational reform; limited government;Ãâà...
Champaign/Urbana News-Gazette
March 9, 2018
When it comes to President Donald Trump's recently announced tariffs on steel and aluminum imports, Republican elected officials, business-oriented news outlets and free-market think tanks have been competing with each other to see who could be most critical of the decision. "If you want to stand up andÃâà...
U.S. News & World Report
March 9, 2018
It doesn't do much use to have all this production without some place for it to go," says Charles Hughes, an analyst at the Manhattan Institute, a free market think tank. Pipelines "can help transport gas where it needs to go, which can lower costs for consumers." The size of the reserves of the Marcellus ShaleÃâà...
swissinfo.ch
February 27, 2018
Swiss universities need to be more efficient if they are to compete internationally, says think tank Avenir Suisse. Regional aspirations have taken ... The independent free-market group of experts is quick to point out that Switzerland is not doing too badly higher-education-wise. “If you take the Times HigherÃâà...
The Sunday Times Sri Lanka
December 31, 1999
Dhananath's research study –'Cost of construction and protectionism' won the main award at the Asia Think Tank Shark Tank Championship held in ... experience in research, and backed by academic qualifications, Dhananath founded the free market thinktank Advocata with a small group of friends.
University World News
December 31, 1999
Swiss universities need to be more efficient if they are to compete internationally, says think tank Avenir Suisse, which warns that regional aspirations have taken priority over ... The independent free-market group of experts is quick to point out that Switzerland is not doing too badly higher-education-wise.
Times Higher Education (THE)
December 31, 1999
Switzerland should end the “duplication” in its higher education system, a thinktank has argued, in which every canton “jockeys to get into the higher ... of the world's top-ranked universities, notably ETH Zurich – Swiss Federal Institute of Technology Zurich, the pro-free market thinktank Avenir Suisse hasÃâà...
