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	Adam Smith Institute - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
		The Adam Smith Institute is a think tank based in the United Kingdom, named after the father of modern economics, Adam Smith.
		The Institute was "a pioneer of privatisation"[2] in the UK and elsewhere.
		Early Institute papers proposed the outsourcing of local government services (1980), the fundamentals of the poll tax (1981-1985) and the deregulation of road transport and privatisation of the National Bus Company (1980), all of which were put into practice in the UK.
	en.wikipedia.org /wiki/Adam_Smith_Institute (438 words)

	Adam Smith - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
		In 1751 Smith was appointed professor on logic at the University of Glasgow, transferring in 1752 to the chair of moral philosophy.
		Smith subsequently resigned his professorship and from 1764-66 traveled with his pupil, mostly in France, where he came to know intellectual leaders such as Turgot, Jean D'Alembert, André Morellet, Helvétius and, in particular, Francois Quesnay, the head of the Physiocratic school whose work he respected greatly.
		Smith believed that while human motives are often selfish and greedy, the competition in the free market would tend to benefit society as a whole by keeping prices low, while still building in an incentive for a wide variety of goods and services.
	en.wikipedia.org /wiki/Adam_Smith (2433 words)

	Adam Smith \| Economist and Philosopher (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-08-11)
		Adam Smith was born in Kirkcaldy, Fife, Scotland.
		Smith was the Scottish political economist and philosopher, who became famous for his influential book "The Wealth of Nations" written in 1776.
		Smith moved to London in 1776, where he published "An Inquiry into the Nature and Causes of the Wealth of Nations," which examined in detail the consequences of economic freedom.
	www.lucidcafe.com /library/96jun/smith.html (658 words)

	The Adam Smith Myth - Mises Institute
		Adam Smith did not found the science of economics, but he did indeed create the paradigm of the British classical school, and it is often useful for the creator of a paradigm to be inchoate and confused, thereby leaving room for disciples who will attempt to clarify and systematize the contributions of the Master.
		Adam Smith was born in 1723 in the small town of Kirkcaldy, near Edinburgh.
		Smith was sent to Balliol College, Oxford, on a scholarship designed to nurture future Episcopalian clerics, but he was unhappy at the wretched instruction in the Oxford of his day, and returned after six years, at the age of 23, without having taken holy orders.
	www.mises.org /story/2012 (4672 words)

	The Betrayal of Adam Smith
		It is ironic that corporate libertarians regularly pay homage to Adam Smith as their intellectual patron saint, since it is obvious to even the most casual reader of his epic work The Wealth of Nations that Smith would have vigorously opposed most of their claims and policy positions.
		Smith, on the other hand, opposed any form of economic concentration on the ground that it distorts the market's natural ability to establish a price that provides a fair return on land, labor, and capital; to produce a satisfactory outcome for both buyers and sellers; and to optimally allocate society's resources.
		Adam Smith was as acutely aware of issues of power and class as he was of the dynamics of competitive markets.
	www.pcdf.org /corprule/betrayal.htm (1869 words)

	Jeet Heer, "Adam Smith"
		Although Adam Smith is usually considered to be the founding father of right-wing free market economics, a rising chorus of left-wing academics are claiming him for their own.
		In England, the Adam Smith Institute is a bulwark of Thatcherism.
		Adam Smith, born in Scotland in 1723, is widely regarded as the founder of modern economics.
	www.jeetheer.com /politics/smith.htm (1006 words)

	LibertyGuide.com - Adam Smith (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-08-11)
		Smith began college at the young age of fifteen, studying moral philosophy at Glasgow University, and on to Balliol College in Oxford, England.
		In his late twenties Adam Smith took a position as professor at Glasgow University, first in logic and later in moral philosophy.
		It was here that Smith wrote his Theory of Moral Sentiments, where he spoke of sympathy as a common human motive.
	www.theihs.org /libertyguide/people.php/75859.html (378 words)

	Adam Smith
		Adam Smith's chief contribution was to build a coherent and logical theory of how the economy works.
		Smith's theory of wages was a form of the Iron Law of Wages which held that wages are by and large equal to the subsistence level of wages.
		Smith was suspicious of businessmen and believed that, given the chance, they would do anything reduce competition among themselves and then form a group to gang up on consumers and charge them more than the competitive price.
	www.phoenix.liu.edu /~uroy/eco54/histlist/smith/smith.htm (1343 words)

	Panchromatica: Adam Smith Institute
		According to the Adam Smith Institute Blog a Treasury paper on Flat Tax was 'censored'.
		In a rather curious post on Hayek, Dr Madsen Pirie of the Adam Smith Institute seems to be interpreting Hayek as saying that while human nature and history leads to an "urge to share everything when value could not be stored", we progressed as a species by repudiating that urge.
		This quote from the Adam Smith Institute Blog is another example I think of their desparate urge to be seen as radical, regardless of how nonsensical the position they take up.
	ibanda.blogs.com /panchromatica/adam_smith_institute (5847 words)

	Adam Smith Conferences - International Summits, Forums, Seminars on Russia
		Adam Smith Conferences have provided platforms for debate across many industry sectors including: energy, transport, banking and financial services, consumer goods, real estate, pharmaceuticals, mining and metals, pulp and paper, telecommunications and IT.
		Adam Smith (1723 – 1790) was the celebrated British philosopher and economist best known for "The Wealth of Nations", his pioneering book on free trade and market economics.
		His ideas laid the foundation for the free market economies of the 21st Century, and although conceived over 300 years ago, Adam Smith’s ideas are as significant and relevant today as ever.
	www.asi-conferences.com (254 words)

	Guardian Unlimited Politics \| Comment \| From the archive: Adam Smith Institute's sense and nonsense
		The article is simply the first shot in the latest campaign by the Adam Smith Institute, a body which has built up a startling track record for floating ideas which end up on the statute books.
		The institute is run on a staff of seven and a budget of around £100,000, nearly all of it from company donations.
		Pirie believes the institute's publications command respect because they are practically based and, where possible, are illustrated by the experience of other countries.
	politics.guardian.co.uk /comment/story/0,9115,1672319,00.html (432 words)

	Adam Smith Institute - SourceWatch
		Now the government is the institute's biggest funder, paying more than £7m out of the overseas aid budget last year for advice on "public sector reform" in developing countries such as Afghanistan and Palestine..." None of this £7m actually found its way to the Adam Smith Institute.
		According to an internal Philip Morris report on the institute [1] (http://legacy.library.ucsf.edu/cgi/getdoc?tid=dbp83c00andfmt=gifandref=results), on a series of specific points ASI proposals have become policy and been enacted into law.
		Adam Smith International – Consulting offshoot of the institute.
	www.sourcewatch.org /index.php?title=Adam_Smith_Institute (500 words)

	Adam Smith Institute (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-08-11)
		The Adam Smith Institute has released a 24 minute DVD tracing the life of the scholar Freidrich A Hayek.
		The Report is the second in a series called Roadmap to Reform, in which the Adam Smith Institute aims to chart out an entire strategy for more diversity and open government across health, transport, education, regulation, tax, crime, industry, energy, the economy, welfare and other topics.
		The report argues that EU rules should be applied equally across all member countries, utilities should no longer have to pick up the cost of customers who cannot pay their bills, and small firms should have to deal with only one official on all aspects of business and workplace regulation.
	www.adamsmith.org (959 words)

	BBC NEWS \| Business \| US bank boss hails 'genius' Smith
		The Adam Smith Lecture celebrates the author of 1776's Wealth of Nations, which became a bible of capitalism.
		"Kirkcaldy, the birthplace in 1723 of Adam Smith and, by extension, of modern economics, is also of course, where your chancellor was reared.
		Dr Greenspan said Smith's revolutionary philosophy on human self-interest, laissez-faire economics and competition had been a force for good in the world.
	news.bbc.co.uk /2/hi/business/4240491.stm (463 words)

	Open Directory - Science: Social Sciences: Economics: People: Smith, Adam (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-08-11)
		Adam Smith: Biographical Sketch - An 1881 biography by James Anson Farrer.
		Adam Smith on Justice in Taxation - Adam Smith's recommendations on taxation.
		Squashed Adam Smith - A condensed edition of Adam Smith's 'The Wealth of Nations' with study notes and glossary.
	dmoz.org /Science/Social_Sciences/Economics/People/Smith,_Adam (314 words)

	Tribune 9 January 2004 : Amanda Day (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-08-11)
		The Adam Smith Institute, which has picked up more than £14 million in contracts since 1999, had its best year so far in 2003, when it won a £6 million deal to “liberalise” South Africa’s public services.
		However, he added that a statement about the number of contracts awarded to the Adam Smith Institute was to be issued by DFID later this week.
		A spokesman for the Adam Smith Institute emphasised that the organisation has two distinct arms, one that formulates ideas and the other which is involved in consultancy and contract work.
	www.tribweb.co.uk /day09012004.htm (489 words)

	Guardian Unlimited Politics \| Special Reports \| Adam Smith Institute
		The institute's main focus has been in introducing choice and competition, in extending the influence of markets and in redesigning public services in ways that inject innovation and consumer responsiveness into their delivery.
		The Adam Smith Institute pioneered privatisation both in Britain and around the world.
		11.06.85 June 11 1985: The Adam Smith Institute today published a compendium of more than 600 rightwing policy initiatives which its authors claim to be a route map of the future for the Conservative government.
	politics.guardian.co.uk /thinktanks/page/0,10538,526773,00.html (512 words)

	Adam Smith Institute Conferences
		The Adam Smith Institute’s pioneering series of “Power and Gas Liberalisation” events has gained in stature since its inauguration in February 2000.
		With this 8th conference, Adam Smith Conferences has firmly consolidated its excellent reputation in the sector and once again provided 28 senior and influential industry figures with a platform to push forward the energy debate.
		Adam Smith Conferences would like to thank everybody who helped make this event such a success.
	www.adamsmithconferences.com /html/conference_html/energy/energy_oct02.html (297 words)

	Adam Smith
		"Murray Rothbard Confronts Adam Smith" by P.B. Trescott, 1996, QJ of Austrian Econ
		"The Intertemporal Adam Smith" by Roger Garrison, 1998, QJ of Austrian Econ
		"The Triumph of Adam Smith" by Edward Yardeni
	cepa.newschool.edu /het/profiles/smith.htm (531 words)

	CorpWatch : UK: Foreign Aid Goes to Neoliberal Recipients
		The Adam Smith Institute, the ultra-rightwing lobby group, now receives more money from Britain's Department for International Development (DfID) than Liberia or Somalia, two of the most desperate nations on Earth.
		The institute's purpose is to devise new means for corporations to grab the resources that belong to the public realm.
		The next thing you know, they're on the edge of policy." In this spirit, his institute now calls for the privatisation of social security, the dismantling of the NHS and a shift from public to private education.
	www.corpwatch.org /article.php?id=9530 (1329 words)

	George Monbiot » On the Edge of Lunacy
		The Institute’s purpose is to devise new means for corporations to grab the resources which belong to the public realm.
		Its president, Madsen Pirie, claims to have invented the word privatisation.3 His was the organisation which persuaded the Conservative government to sell off the railways, deregulate the buses, introduce the poll tax, cut the top rates of income tax, outsource local government services and start to part-privatise the National Health Service and the education system.
		The next thing you know, they’re on the edge of policy.”4 In this spirit, his institute now calls for the privatisation of social security, the dismantling of the NHS and a shift from public to private education.5 It opposes government spending on everything, in other words, except the Adam Smith Institute.
	www.monbiot.com /archives/2004/01/06/on-the-edge-of-lunacy (1173 words)

	Adam Smith Institute urges finance initiative shake-up
		The Adam Smith Institute, the Right-wing think-tank, also calls for the appointment of "minders" to keep projects on track and cut delays caused by fussy civil servants.
		The institute's criticism follows earlier attacks on the flagship initiative, designed to attract private-sector finance into public-sector projects to reduce government borrowing.
		The institute says civil servants are costing contractors millions of pounds because they are dithering about which building or service they want and "pass the buck endlessly" among different agencies and departments.
	www.telegraph.co.uk /htmlContent.jhtml?html=/archive/1996/08/13/cadam13.html (346 words)

	Tribune 25 April 2003 : Amanda Day (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-08-11)
		FREE market think-tank the Adam Smith Institute has won a contract from the Department for International Development to provide technical assistance for restructuring public services in South Africa.
		Peter Young, director of Adam Smith International, the non-domestic arm of the institute, explained that his company will be providing technical assistance to South Africa’s telecoms industry, railways and ports infrastructure.
		Commenting on the pro-privatisation ethos of the Adam Smith Institute, Mr Young distinguished between the domestic and international branches of the organisation.
	www.tribweb.co.uk /day25042003.htm (494 words)

	Adam Smith Institute - Merchandize (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-08-11)
		And this handsome one bears the profile of Adam Smith on one side and a short quotation from The Wealth of Nations on the back.
		Specially commissioned by the Adam Smith Institute to commemorate the 200th anniversary of Smith's death in 1790, each 45mm medal comes in its own dark-blue presentation case bearing Smith's signature.
		This 50mm pin shows a likeness of Adam Smith (if you have good eyesight you can even read his name on the bottom) so you can let people know your free-market affiliations.
	adamsmith.ssl.lon-web-1.gradwell.net /shop/products.php?g1=f3611d (431 words)

	Links Page
		The Adam Smith Institute is the UK's leading innovator of free-market policies.
		The International Adam Smith Society was founded in 1995 with two aims: (i) to encourage interdisciplinary scholarly interest in Adam Smith's writings, as well as in topics and issues connected with his writings; and (ii) to provide a forum for the sharing of research and scholarship relating to Adam Smith.
		The offices of the David Hume Institute are based in the historic city of Edinburgh, a city with a rich academic and cultural heritage.
	adamsmithslostlegacy.com /links_page.htm (823 words)

	The Adam Smith Institute Major Inaugural Forum on (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-08-11)
		The Adam Smith Institute is delighted to announce this major inaugural forum, which will consolidate the key role it has played in leading the debate on all aspects of market transition in the power and gas sectors of Central and Eastern Europe and Russia and the CIS.
		The Adam Smith Institute is a government institute/think-tank based in London that has been involved in advising governments on issues such as market opening and strategies for economic transition.
		The Institute has been involved in organising high-level international forums for nine years and has to date been extremely successful in reaching a very senior caliber of participants from both government and industry.
	www.bsrec.bg /newbsrec/Advertising.htm (207 words)

	Adam Smith International - SourceWatch (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-08-11)
		Adam Smith International (ASI) is the consulting arm of the conservative think tank, the Adam Smith Institute.
		ASI is based in London as well as having a registered office in Delhi and project offices elsewhere.
		In May, a similar water privatization scheme in Tanzania that DfID paid Adam Smith International £273,000 to promote collapsed "after the contractor, Biwater, was asked to leave by the government." [9] (http://politics.guardian.co.uk/development/story/0,15709,1558761,00.html_)
	www.sourcewatch.org /index.php?title=Adam_Smith_International (691 words)

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