Adam Smith Institute

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The Adam Smith Institute is a British think tank founded in 1977 with headquarters in London . It is named after Adam Smith . According to its own statements, the ASI is committed to free markets and classical liberalism .

General

Among the British think tanks, the ASI is considered to be one of the radical market institutes. In 1990, ASI officials claimed that 100 of their policy proposals were implemented by Margaret Thatcher's UK government . However, according to independent assessments, the ASI had little experience in implementing policy. During John Major's tenure , ASI officials claimed the Citizens Charter government initiative came from the ASI. In the late 1990s, the Adam Smith Institute became a popular venue for speeches by New Labor Ministers. During Tony Blair's tenure , ASI experts also advised the government of the Social Democratic Labor government.

The Adam Smith Institute was described by Hywel Williams as having appropriated and supported the "half-baked intellectualism" of the Conservative Party in the 1980s and 1990s.

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literature

Books

  • Madsen Pirie: Think tank - The Story of the Adam Smith Institute , London: Biteback, 2012. ISBN 978-1-84954-184-8

Scientific papers

  • Andrew Denham / Mark Garnett: Influence without Responsibility? Think-Tanks in Britain , in: Parliamentary Affairs, Vol. 52 (1999), No. 1, pp. 46-57.
  • Richard Heffernan: 'Blueprint for a revolution'? The politics of the Adam Smith institute , in: Contemporary British History, Vol. 10 (1996), No. 1, pp. 73-87.
  • Hartwig Pautz: The Think Tanks behind 'Cameronism' , in: The British Journal of Politics and International Relations, Vol. 15 (2013), No. 3, pp. 46–57.

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Andrew Denham / Mark Garnett: Influence without Responsibility? Think-Tanks in Britain , in: Parliamentary Affairs, vol. 52 (1999), no. 1, pp. 46-57 (here: p. 50).
  2. ↑ Andrew Denham / Mark Garnett: Influence without Responsibility? Think-Tanks in Britain , in: Parliamentary Affairs, vol. 52 (1999), no. 1, pp. 46-57 (here: p. 51).
  3. ↑ Andrew Denham / Mark Garnett: Influence without Responsibility? Think-Tanks in Britain , in: Parliamentary Affairs, vol. 52 (1999), no. 1, pp. 46-57 (here: p. 51).
  4. ↑ Andrew Denham / Mark Garnett: Influence without Responsibility? Think-Tanks in Britain , in: Parliamentary Affairs, vol. 52 (1999), no. 1, pp. 46-57 (here: p. 54).
  5. ↑ Andrew Denham / Mark Garnett: Influence without Responsibility? Think-Tanks in Britain , in: Parliamentary Affairs, vol. 52 (1999), no. 1, pp. 46-57 (here: p. 53).
  6. ↑ Hywel Williams: Guilty Men: Conservative Decline and Fall 1992-97 . 1st edition. Aurum Press, 1998, ISBN 978-1-85410-581-3 , pp. 4 .
  7. ↑ Hartwig Pautz: The Think Tanks behind 'Cameronism' , in: The British Journal of Politics and International Relations, Vol. 15 (2013), No. 3, pp. 362-377 (here: p. 366).