Jobs @ ASI
Bored with your current gap year? With our increasing workload, we are interested in taking on someone who is currently having a gap year between school and university and who can work between January and the summer. The position will be paid. e-mail us with your CV and a covering letter.
Project Manager
Gap Year
Interns
For more information, click here
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Adam Smith Institute
ASI is the UK's leading innovator of practical market-economic policies. For over 25 years it has been a pioneer in the worldwide movement towards free markets, public-sector reform, and free trade.
The Institute's main focus is on reforming governments and state enterprises in order to promote choice, competition, enterprise, and user-focus. It works through research, reports, conferences, advice, and media debate.
Contact ASI
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Adam Smith
(1723-1790)
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Adam Smith was the great Scottish philosopher and economist best known for "The Wealth of Nations", his pioneering book on free trade and market economics.
A wide selection of material about Adam Smith is now available on this site. Please see the menu above.
This includes the full text of his two major works,
The Theory of Moral Sentiments
and
The Wealth of Nations
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Other Heroes
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F A Hayek - Philosopher of Liberty and Nobel Laureate in Economics
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Milton Friedman - great monetary economist and libertarian policy guru
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Adam Smith or bust!
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The Institute is proud to offer a limited edition of its superb cast busts
of the great economist and social theorist Adam Smith.
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Standing about 25cm (9in) high, the exclusive bronze-finish Adam Smith bust is available
at UK£125 (Worldwide at UK£130)
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To purchase the Bust or select from a range of ASI merchandize, please visit our on-line Shop
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Multimedia
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Forget those naughty screensavers you can download from dubious sites. Now you can have Adam Smith gracing your desktop. Click here to see our latest selection of wallpapers, hotbar skins and screensavers. You can download them all FREE!
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The ASI has 501(c)(3) tax- exempt status in the USA. To donate, please click here.
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Link to Adam Smith!
Like our site? Found useful information about Adam Smith or free-market economics and public policy? Then help us by adding a link from your site to http://www.adamsmith.org.
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Skeptical Environmentalist at ASI
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Bjørn Lomborg's book 'The Skeptical Environmentalist' challenges the view
that the global environment is progressively getting worse. Lomborg goes
through the major environmental issues and shows that the global environment
has actually improved. Now he's coming to London to deliver an important
Adam Smith Lecture on environmental policy on 26th February 2004.
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For more details please see our forward diary.
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FEATURED PUBLICATIONS
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Air travel: vital or vicious?
UK air travel has grown 70 times since 1949, but only one new runway has
been built since then. Our new paper argues that capacity must be expanded
and that the economic benefits of this are great. And the environmental
impact can be reduced as new technology makes planes quieter and less
polluting.
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Read a summary here.
Read the full report here.
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FEATURED EVENTS
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Serious breakfast
Robert Wardle, Director of the Serious Fraud Office, talks about the impact
of fraud on the reputation of the UK as a place to do business, and what to
do about it, at this House of Commons breakfast today.
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For more details please see our forward diary.
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SPOTLIGHT ISSUE
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Will the lights go out?
Government plans to phase out nuclear power will leave the UK with an
unfillable energy hole, say experts in our new report Power to the People.
Wind and wave power are just partial solutions, while importing gas across
pipelines running through troubled countries is risky. Our large-scale
project on energy policy says it's time for a re-think.
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Read Power to the People here.
More about our energy project here.
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SUPER SITES
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The Library of Economics and Liberty
Is bad economic policy down to voters, not politicians? What are the
economics of style? What would Bagehot have made of the Fed? And must a
confederation inevitably turn into a superstate? These are just some of the
debate topics that you can find on this eclectic libertarian site.
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Visit The Library of Economics and Liberty here.
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TOP TOMES
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BEEB Boffin's top tomes
Risk (from an ASI author) and irrationality; Chancellors, chimpanzees and
economists... Just some of the recommended reading subjects from Evan Davis,
the BBC's well-known Economics Editor.
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See Evan Davis's top tomes here.
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IT MAKES YOU
T H I N K
the ASI weblog
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[title] => Fixed Quantity of Programming Fallacy
[link] => http://www.adamsmithblog.org/archives/000218.php
[description] => There's been a lot of worry about programming jobs being transferred from Britain and American to India. Brian Micklethwait says that we shouldn't worry, and that we should avoid falling for the Fixed Quantity of Programming Fallacy....
[dc:subject] => Globalization
[dc:creator] => Alex
[dc:date] => 2004-02-04T16:43:09+00:00
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[title] => Make European airports private
[link] => http://www.adamsmithblog.org/archives/000217.php
[description] => It's not Ryanair that's at fault in the Charleroi airport-discounts controversy. It's state intervention in the aviation industry. Airports should be free to charge whatever they want. Why not offer a discount to a big customer - just as suppliers...
[dc:subject] => Transport
[dc:creator] => Eamonn
[dc:date] => 2004-02-03T15:36:16+00:00
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[title] => President Bush: spend, spend, spend
[link] => http://www.adamsmithblog.org/archives/000216.php
[description] => Stephen Moore writes in National Review Online pointing out the reality President Bush's budget, which is being given today: The president will predictably boast that this is a lean budget that spends money judiciously on top national priorities like homeland...
[dc:subject] => Tax & Economy
[dc:creator] => Alex
[dc:date] => 2004-02-03T15:15:33+00:00
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Think Pieces
Madsen’s Almanack of 2004
Madsen Pirie predicts the future.
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Why Hayek's a Conservative
The freedom-minded Nobel economist FA Hayek wrote a famous article on "Why I am not a Conservative". But ASI's Dr Madsen Pirie disputes Hayek's self-evaluation, and explains why he was wrong.
Read the think piece (PDF, 41kb)
Read more about FA Hayek
Scrap the Schools Department!
Stuart Sexton, ASI author and former adviser to the Secretary of State for Education, says we could quite easily manage without 'that awful Department' and tells us how to achieve its demise.
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Read Sexton's ASI report 'The Education Cheque'
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Comment
Exporting Jobs is OK!
As more UK jobs go to the Far East, should we be downhearted? No, says Dr
Eamonn Butler, as long as we keep on our feet and avoid more regulation.
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ASI Energy Project - details
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Comment
End the Post Office monopoly!
Why should the Royal Mail keep its monopoly when spreading strikes mean it
cannot provide a decent service? Peter Clarke says it's time the Post Office
faced real competition.
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