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Madsen Pirie @ European Students For Liberty Prague

Madsen Pirie on "Prospects for Liberty" The Sons of Libertas recorded the lecture of Madsen Pirie at the European Students for Liberty conference in Prag 2014. Prior to co-founding the Adam Smith Institute, a Libertarian think tank. Pirie worked for the United States House of Representatives.He was a Distinguished Visiting Professor of Logic and Philosophy at Hillsdale College, Hillsdale, Michigan, USA. Pirie was one of three Britons living in the United States who founded the Adam Smith Institute. The Institute is a UK-based think tank that champions the ideas of free market policy. In January 2010 Foreign Policy and the University of Pennsylvania named the Adam Smith Institute among the top 10 think tanks in the world outside of the US.[2] The Institute is highly influential in UK public policy, and was "a pioneer of privatisation" in the UK and elsewhere. It undertook many policy initiatives aimed at replacing state controls and monopolies with opportunities for competition choice in a broad area. The ASI proposed reforms in taxation, public services, transport and local government. It published Douglas Mason's original paper advocating a poll tax or community charge as it was later called. Pirie is seen as the architect of Margaret Thatcher's privatisation policy. His work in helping to develop the Citizen's Charter led to his appointment to the British Prime Minister John Major's Advisory Panel from 1991 to 1995. Apart from his work with the Adam Smith Institute, Pirie is an author in several fields, including philosophy with "How to Win Every Argument" and "101 Great Philosophers". He has written on economics, including "Economics Made Simple", and a series of YouTube videos entitled "Economics is Fun". He has co-authored (with Eamonn Butler) "Test Your IQ", "Boost Your IQ", and "The Sherlock Holmes IQ Book". He also published "Think Tank – the Story of the Adam Smith Institute". He has published, in addition, several science fiction novels for young adults.Pirie appears regularly as a commentator on CNN and BBC television, and he is a keen film buff along with regularly participating in rocket launches at Cambridge with Cambridge University Spaceflight.He is also on the Board of Advisers of the UK Liberty League, which describes itself as "a network for freedom-loving groups across the nation". In 2010 he was joint winner (with Eamonn Butler) of the National Free Enterprise Award. http://www.sonsoflibertas.com   / sonsoflibertas   http://studentsforliberty.org/ http://studentsforliberty.org/europe/...