Atlas Network

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The Atlas Network (formerly Atlas Economic Research Foundation ) is a 1981 by British entrepreneur and business developers Antony Fisher founded non-profit organization based in Arlington , Virginia , which claims to be for building and international networking classical liberal think tanks founded . In the scientific literature, the Atlas Network is assigned to neoliberalism or libertarianism . According to Smith et al. the Atlas Network acts both as a think tank itself and as a link between hundreds of mostly libertarian partner organizations.

Networking

The Atlas Network coordinates communication between around 200 think tanks and has so far helped around 100 think tanks set up. In 2016, 451 free-market organizations (i.e. organizations promoting the free market economy ) in 95 countries are networked. The organization's budget in 2001 was approximately $ 2.5 million. Atlas Network has presented the Sir Anthony Fisher International Memorial Award annually since 1990 and the Templeton Freedom Award named after John Marks Templeton since 2004 . The organization was named after the novel Atlas throws off the world by Ayn Rand .

Atlas Network u. a. with the following organizations:

Positions and work

The network includes many think tanks that are actively working on spreading climate "skeptical" positions. According to Susanne Götze and Annika Joeres , the Atlas Network is "a partner of pretty much all neoliberal think tanks [...] that represent climate-skeptical theses". It is also considered a "strategic ally" of the tobacco industry .

financing

The Atlas Network is financed by libertarian actors such as the foundations of the brothers Charles G. Koch and David Koch and John Marks Templeton , all of whom are regular donors. The Atlas Network also received money from various companies such as ExxonMobil , Shell , MasterCard , Pfizer and Procter & Gamble . Even Richard Mellon Scaife contributed to the funding. Another long-standing financier was the tobacco company Philip Morris .

literature

  • Marie Laure Djelic & Reza Mousavi: “How the Neoliberal Think Tank Went Global: The Atlas Network, 1981 to the Present”, in: Plehwe, Dieter; Slobodian, Quinn & Mirowski, Philip (eds.): Nine Lives of Neoliberalism , ISBN 978-1-78873-255-0 , Verso Books, London a. New York / NY 2020, pp. 257–282.
  • Globalization and the Opportunities for Developing Countries . In: International Monetary Fund [IMF] (ed.): IMF, World Economic Outlook . Washington DC May 1997, p. 72-92 .

Web links

Individual evidence

  1. ^ A b Dieter Plehwe: Think tank networks and the knowledge-interest nexus: the case of climate change . In: Critical Policy Studies . tape 8 , no. 1 , 2014, p. 101–115 , doi : 10.1080 / 19460171.2014.883859 .
  2. ↑ a b c Julia Smith et al .: The atlas network: a “strategic ally” of the tobacco industry . In: The International Journal of Health Planning and Management . 2016, doi : 10.1002 / hpm.2351 .
  3. ↑ Stephan Schulmeister , From Enlightenment to Counter-Enlightenment , in Die Presse , Vienna on August 30, 2016.
  4. ↑ overview of the contracts awarded by the Atlas Network Awards (English)
  5. ↑ Timothy Mitchell: How Neoliberalism Makes its World: The Urban Property Rights Project in Peru . In: Mirowski, Plehwe (Ed.): The Road from Mont Pelerin - The Making of the Neoliberal Thought Collective . Harvard Univ. Pr., 2009, pp. 386-416, here: p. 396.
  6. ↑ Prometheus - Lobbypedia. Retrieved on February 7, 2017 (German (Sie-Salutation)).
  7. ↑ Susanne Götze , Annika Joeres : The climate pollution lobby . How politicians and business leaders sell the future of our planet . Munich 2020, p. 74.
  8. ^ Sphere of Influence: How American Libertarians Are Remaking Latin American Politics . In: The Intercept , August 9, 2017. Retrieved August 31, 2020.