Despite dire eco-nomic news and the coming gov-e r n m e n t - d e b t train wreck, I’m optimistic about the future. That’s because so many

of today’s youth are – refreshing-ly – more oriented toward respon-sibility than their elders. They know that there’s no free lunch. They certainly know that they’re going to get stuck with the bill. The welfare state is failing. The answer is a revival of personal re-sponsibility. What is needed is a movement to challenge the wel-fare state. To do that, people need to understand why it is failing and how to undo it.

Young people have the energy to take on the welfare state. What they lack is the detailed knowl-edge to challenge their elders – politicians, professors, and pun-dits – who cling to their faith in the benevolence and goodness of big government and the nanny state. Our new book After the Wel-fare State will provide hundreds of thousands of students with the knowledge – and the confidence –

HIGHLIGHTS • Fall 2012

ANNOUNCING

What Comes After the Welfare State?ON THE ROAD

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Atlas is launching a multi-faceted program to engage its partners in a discussion about the bankruptcy of the welfare state. Our campaign begins with a new book, published in partnership with Students for Liberty, with 125,000 copies distributed to students and think tank audiences around the world.

Solutions to Poverty Acton Institute, USA National Center for Policy Analysis, USA

Ethics and Values Jerusalem Institute for Market Studies, Israel CEPOS, Denmark

Social Entrepreneurship Instituto Democracia y Mercado, Chile Corporación Transparencia por Colombia, Colombia

Public Relations CEDICE, Venezuela Taxpayers’ Alliance, UK

Innovative Media Moving Pictures Institute, USA Contrepoints, Belgium

University-Based Centers Center for the History of Political Economy, USA Initiative for Public Choice and Market Process, USA

Young Institutes MacDonald Laurier Institute, Canada India Institute, India

Student Outreach Free to Choose Network, USA European Students for Liberty, Belgium

For more about the winners, visit AtlasNetwork.org.

Templeton Freedom Award

Winners 2012

By Tom G. Palmer

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The Sound Money Project is pleased to announce its new-est publication, Roads to Sound Money. The book offers essays from ten prominent academics in the field of monetary policy. It includes recommenda-tions to both academ-ics and policy-makers on how to reform and fix the problems of the current monetary system in the US as well as the internation-al monetary system. Edited by Sound Money Project co-directors Alex Chafuen and Judy Shelton, Roads to Sound Money includes au-thors such as Steven Hanke, Jerry

Jordan, Allan Meltzer, Jerry O’Driscoll, George Selgin and Larry White among others. The pur-pose of the book, as well as the mission of Atlas’s Sound Money Project, is to foster a conversa-tion on these issues and encourage think tanks, academics and policy-makers to engage in the debate over monetary reform. This debate

comes at a time when nations are suffering the consequences of money mismanagement and mal-investment and struggling to find a way out of economic distress.

Why Atlas?SPREADING THE WORD

Roads to Sound Money

Expanding China’s Freedom Library

Growing up under a closed po-litical sys-tem in Iran, Reza An-sari has a deep appre-ciation for the value of liberty and democracy. Explaining why he does this work, Reza says, “The current Iranian regime will not last forever. My goal is to prepare viable solutions for a free and prosperous Iran, and to build a network of clas-sical liberals there to cham-pion these proposals when the moment of opportunity emerges.” Reza.Ansari@AtlasNetwork.org

Ethelmae Humphreys says, “I give to Atlas because lib-erty is under assault, and

the global freedom movement is just as im-portant as the one here at home. By supporting over 400 think tanks

in more than 82 countries, Atlas works every day to en-sure that this world is a freer place for all individuals.” Humphreys, Chairman of the Board of Tamko Building Products in Joplin, Missouri and grandmother to 12 chil-dren, is a long-time support-er of the freedom movement. Ethelmae knows exactly why she gives to Atlas.

Staff SpotlightIn addition to maintaining an ac-tive online presence and working to grow vibrant student networks in China, Atlas coordinates with local partners to bring both origi-nal and classic works of liberal thought to Chinese readers. Some of these works include foundation-al texts such as David Boaz’s Lib-ertarianism: A Primer while others bring to-gether leading schol-ars to pre-

scribe clear and attainable market reforms for tackling China’s most pressing problems such as this year’s The Road to Harmonious De-velopment: Policies for the National Interest. And we’re always encour-aged when we can work with Chi-nese publishers to re-release books from our own team such as Tom

G. Palmer’s Realizing Freedom.

Visit SoundMoneyProject.org for more information.

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Students in Mozambique show their support for Atlas partner African Students for Liberty with new T-shirts represent-ing their commitment to growing the student movement in Africa. SYPALA graduates are encouraged to continue their involvement, many of them going on to contribute to the wider freedom movement.

Atlas Network co-sponsored the 2012 Students and Young Professionals Conference (SYPALA), coordinated by Adedayo Thomas, Atlas’s African-Liberty.org director of outreach and publisher, held at the Catholic University in Quelimane, Mozambique, August 8 – 11. Over sixty students and young professionals attended the education-al conference with the theme, “From Poverty and

Serfdom to Prosperity and Freedom.” Speakers in-cluded: Dr. Manuel Araujo, Mayor of Quelimane; Antonio Alberto da Silva Francisco, research di-rector, Institute of Social and Economic Studies; Glenn Cripe and Andy Eyschen, Language of Lib-erty; and Henriques Viola, Center for Mozambi-can and International Studies and Franklin Cud-joe, IMANI.

NETWORK NEWS

Reasons for Hope ...

Newly founded Kazakhstan Institute for Public Policy joined regional partners Tajikistan Free Market Centre (founded 2011) and Central Asian Free Market Institute to host inaugu-ral freedom seminars this summer, building on the outreach work of past years’ Freedom Caravans which brought the freedom message to thousands of students and young professionals in dozens of cities • Dozens of partners hosted Friedman Legacy events in July honoring the 100th anniversary of Milton Friedman’s birth, including multi-day events in Chile where Dr. Friedman’s ideas have contributed mightily to the nation’s economic success • Atlas partners released a dozen video translations of Friedman’s retelling of the famous I, Pencil story, illustrating the marvel of prices and cooperation in the free-market system • Journalists in Vietnam received intensive training in August from DoiMoi’s Summer School for Journalists which emphasizes key les-sons in market economics • Estudantes pela Liberdade, a new student network in Brazil, has developed a culturally salient online quiz modeled after the Nolan Chart giving candidates and voters a true sense of their own political philosophies • African Liberty published Voices from Africa this year offering forward-looking prescriptions for liberty and economic development on the continent with foreword by Professor George Attiyey • The young institute Libek, in Serbia, successfully hosted the ambitious Liberal Policy Academy — a semester-long educational program for Serbian youth • The Centre for Civil Society’s “Jeevika” livelihood campaign has improved the regulatory landscape for budding entrepreneurs in India • New think tank Icelandic Research Centre for Innovation and Economic Growth hit the ground running this year with new research demonstrating the power of spontaneous cooperation in free markets.

... Around the World

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Welfare State from Page 1they need to stand up to those who have stolen their futures. Atlas is working closely with our partner Students for Liberty (SFL) to provide students with that knowledge and that moral self-confidence needed to roll back the welfare state.In 2010 we worked with SFL to publish and distribute 30,000 copies of The Economics of Freedom, a short book featuring essays by Fred-eric Bastiat, an introduction by Nobel Laureate F. A. Hayek, and a debunking of “Twenty Myths About the Market.” Last year we co-published The Morality of Cap-italism and distributed 100,000 copies in English (as well as a special edition in India). This year translations of The Morality of Capitalism have come out in a dozen other languages. This fall 125,000 copies of Af-ter the Welfare State are being shipped to college campuses, including 20,000 to European university chapters of Students for Liberty. (It’s been a joy over the past two years to help the impressive young people at SFL by working to build a global network of SFL chapters; Atlas has played a key role in helping SFL to grow in North and South

America, Africa, Europe, and Asia.)The book includes chapters on the economics, history, and poli-tics of the welfare state, as well as case studies of how welfare

states have crashed econo-mies and im-periled democ-racies. It includes de-tailed informa-tion on what the welfare

state swept away – mutual aid, self-help, and huge networks of organized friendly societies, self help – and on the true sources of poverty alleviation and wide-spread prosperity. The book mixes popular journal-istic essays with scholarly essays to offer value to a wide spectrum of readers. And it is being made available not only in a mass mar-ket paperback edition, but also can be downloaded for free, in a PDF version.Young people around the world are ready, not only for free-dom, but for the responsibil-ity without which freedom is impossible. What they need is knowledge.

The Fisher Legacy Society, Atlas’s new planned giving program, invites At-las support-ers to make Atlas a part of their leg-acy plans. Members of the Fisher Legacy Society can be confident that resources entrusted to Atlas will go towards achieving tangible goals while promoting the ideas of free markets, free minds, and a free society. William Sum-ner, who has been involved with Atlas since its founding in 1981 and served as its chairman for 20 years, will now serve as chair of the Fisher Legacy Society. Please contact Stepanie.Giova-netti@AtlasNetwork.org to plan your gift today.

Establish Your Legacy with a Planned Gift

Atlas founder, Sir Antony Fisher

William Sumner

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“Your future depends on understanding what

is in this book.” — Jeffrey A. Miron Harvard University

To learn more about the proj-ect or to order your copy of After the Welfare State, visit AtlasNetwork.org/AWS.

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TRAINING

Breaking Down Barriers with Online Training

As part of the flexible curriculum of the Atlas Leader-ship Academy, Atlas offers three distinct online train-ing options through which participants can earn credits towards graduation. The Atlas Challenge allows users to learn and develop their own entrepreneurial strengths making them better prepared to tackle the challenges of starting a new think tank. Think Tank 101 Online is a five-lesson course designed to replicate the classroom-style training of our annual Think Tank Leadership Training. Monthly Webinars provide single-topic training throught the year. These efforts are paying off. We are on track this year to double the number of think tank leaders we trained last year. Just take a look at the exciting think tank leaders who join the newest class of Atlas Leadership Academy graduates:• Baishali Bomjan, Asia Centre for Enterprise, India• Sergio Daga, Populi, Bolivia• Gisele Dutheuil, Audace Institut Afrique, Ivory CoastThey join Zoltan Kesz as the first class of Atlas Leadership Academy graduates. Meet them and hear their stories at Liberty Forum in New York City, October 3-4.

FLAGSHIP EVENT

With a fast-growing network, Atlas must stay ahead of the curve. In 2012, we introduced sev-eral online options to bring Atlas’s top-notch training to anyone with an internet connection.

Atlas’s Cindy Cerquitella is program manager for Atlas Leadership Academy. Think tank lead-ers should contact Cindy directly to find out how to get involved and work towards graduation. Contact Cindy.Cerquitella@AtlasNetwork.org.

Credit: Lasia Kretzel

FLAGSHIP EVENT

Liberty Forum and Freedom Dinner 2012Join us in New York City on October 3-4 with special guests Virginia Postrel and Chen Guangcheng. Additional highlights will include:• A “Think Tank Shark Tank” competition with Templeton Freedom

Award winners competing for an additional cash prize.

• Enlightening panel discussions like “The Euro, the Dollar, and the Fu-ture of Sound Money,” “Who Really Built It: How Economic Liberty Drives Prosperity,” “What Comes After the Welfare State?,” and “The Liberty Youth Movement.”

• A luncheon presentation on “Bottom-Up Economics” by FreedomWorks’ Matt Kibbe.

• A discussion on the direction of U.S. policy after the November election, with insights from Grover Norquist of Americans for Tax Reform.

• Special presentations by your friends at Atlas, including Alex Chafuen, Leonard Liggio, Brad Lips, Deroy Murdock and Tom Palmer.

• An “Elevator Pitch” competition, featuring top participants in the Atlas Leadership Academy, for which you will cast a ballot as a judge.

Virginia Postrel

Atlas Economic Research Foundation 1201 L Street, NWWashington, DC 20005

Chen Guangcheng

If you have not yet registered for Liberty Forum and Freedom Dinner, online registration is available at AtlasNetwork.org.