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24-562: The Forum was linked, via shared staff (Julian Morris and Roger Bate) and a shared web server, to the International Policy Network and the Sustainable Development Network . The most prominent academic members were US scientists known for denial of global warming and the relationship between Chloro Fluoro Carbon or CFCs and the ozone depletion . In 1996, Roger Bate approached R.J. Reynolds Tobacco Company for

48-859: A grant of £50,000 to fund a book on risk, containing a chapter on passive smoking [1] , but the grant request was denied and the money was never received. In 1997, the ESEF published What Risk? Science, Politics and Public Health , edited by Roger Bate which included a chapter on passive smoking. In 1998 the Academic Members of ESEF included Bruce Ames , Sallie Baliunas , Robert Balling , Jack Barrett, C.J.F. Böttcher, Peter Dietze, Tor Ragnar Gerholm, Gerhard Gerlich, Sherwood Idso , Helmut Metzner , Patrick J. Michaels , William Mitchell, Harry N.A. Priem, Michel Salomon, S. Fred Singer , Willie Soon , Wolfgang Thüne, and Gerd-Rainer Weber, while Richard S. Courtney and Michael Gough were Business Members. According to Bate,

72-603: A millionaire. In 1955, he used his fortune to set up the influential Institute of Economic Affairs with Ralph Harris . In 1971, Fisher founded the International Institute for Economic Research, which went on to spawn both the Atlas Network in 1981 and the International Policy Network in 2001. Through these operations, Fisher provided financial and operational support for a huge number of fledgling think-tanks, most of which would not exist without his influence. It

96-433: Is a non-profit started in 2001. IPN is funded entirely by voluntary, charitable gifts from foundations, individuals and businesses. IPN does not receive any funding from governments or political parties, and it does no contract work. IPN develops and implements a research and advocacy agenda that encompasses not one or a few, but many public policy issues. IPN has received grants totaling hundreds of thousands of pounds from

120-675: The Royal Air Force , being awarded the Air Force Cross . He and his brother Basil Fisher were assigned to the 111 Hurricane Squadron, which was in the Battle of France and the Battle of Britain. Shortly after that posting, in April 1940, their cousin Michael Fisher was killed in the Battle of Flanders. A few days later Fisher's closest friend and a member of the 111 Hurricane Squadron, David Berry,

144-636: The "vast majority" of the organizations' funding came from the May and Stanley Smith Charitable Trust and the Marit and Hans Rausing Foundation. Global warming denial This Europe-related article is a stub . You can help Misplaced Pages by expanding it . International Policy Network The International Policy Network ( IPN ) was a think tank based in the City of London , founded 1971, and closed in September 2011. It

168-629: The 1980s. In the late 1970s, Fisher assisted Greg Lindsay in the development of the Centre for Independent Studies in Sydney. Cockett wrote, "In 1981, to co-ordinate and establish a central focus for these institutes that Fisher himself started up all over the world, he created the Atlas Economic Research Foundation which in 1987 joined up with the Institute for Humane Studies (IHS) (founded by

192-555: The IEA's Environment and Technology Programme. Antony Fisher Sir Antony George Anson Fisher AFC (28 June 1915 – 8 July 1988), nicknamed AGAF , was a British businessman and think tank founder. He participated in the formation of various libertarian organisations during the second half of the twentieth century, including the Institute of Economic Affairs and the Atlas Network . Through Atlas Network, he helped establish up to 150 other institutions worldwide. Antony Fisher

216-801: The IEA) while he himself concentrated on the fund-raising side". Cockett explained that after his success at the Fraser Institute, Fisher went to New York where in 1977 he set up the International Center for Economic Policy Studies (ICEPS), later renamed the Manhattan Institute . "The incorporation documents for the ICEPS were signed by prominent attorney Bill Casey , later Director of the Central Intelligence Agency". Cockett comments that "under

240-620: The IIER traded as Atlas Foundation UK. The organisation underwent a further rebranding in 2001, when it changed its name to IPN. In the US, the Atlas Foundation also provides training and funding to start libertarian think tanks. Fisher founded the influential Institute of Economic Affairs (IEA), a classical liberal think tank based in London. The founding director of IPN, Julian Morris, was previously director of

264-618: The Mont Pelerin member F. A. Harper in 1961) to provide a central institutional structure for what quickly became an ever-expanding number of international free-market think-tanks or research institutes". According to Cokett, "Fisher used the local and international gatherings of the Mont Pelerin Society to find personnel, fund-raisers and donors for many of the Atlas Institutes" as the international think-tanks proliferated. Fisher

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288-721: The best medium for effecting political change. In 1952, Fisher took a study trip to the United States, where he visited the new Foundation for Economic Education (FEE). F. A. Harper of the FEE introduced Fisher to former colleagues from the Agriculture Department of Cornell University in Ithaca, New York , who showed him intensive chicken farming techniques. Fisher was impressed and returned to start England's first battery cage chicken farm, Buxted Chickens, which eventually made him

312-650: The directorship of William Hammett the Manhattan Institute became probably Fisher's greatest success after the IEA". In 1977, Cockett wrote, Fisher moved to San Francisco "with his second wife Dorian, who he had met through the Mont Pelerin Society , and founded the Pacific Research Institute in 1979" and Fisher and Milton Friedman lived in the same apartment block in San Francisco during

336-407: The environment. IPN promotes public awareness of the importance of this vision for all people, both rich and poor. "IPN seeks to achieve its vision by promoting the role of market institutions in certain key international policy debates: sustainable development , health, and globalisation and trade . IPN works with academics , think tanks, journalists and policymakers on every continent." IPN

360-553: The multinational energy company ExxonMobil , although it has not received money from the energy sector for some years. IPN undertakes ongoing work on public policy in the areas of health, environment, economic development, trade, creativity and innovation. The Freedom to Trade Campaign is run in collaboration with the Atlas Global Initiative. The campaign joins 73 think tanks in 48 countries to support free trade and oppose protectionism. IPN’s Bastiat Prize for Journalism

384-616: The world. Cockett wrote, "On the strength of his reputation with the IEA, he was invited in 1975 to become co-director of the Fraser Institute in Vancouver, founded by the Canadian businessman T. Patrick Boyle in 1974. Fisher let the young director of the Fraser Institute, Michael Walker , get on with the intellectual output of the Institute (just as he had given free rein to Seldon and Harris at

408-692: Was a co-founder of the Fraser Institute , the Manhattan Institute , the Pacific Research Institute , the National Center for Policy Analysis , the Centre for Independent Studies , and the Adam Smith Institute . He was knighted four weeks before his death. Fisher was married twice. He had four children with his first wife, including Linda Whetstone , who was involved with many of Fisher's think tanks. His granddaughter, Rachel Whetstone , serves as senior vice-president of communications and public policy for Uber . Fisher's second wife, Dorian Fisher,

432-412: Was a non-partisan, non-profit organization, but critics said it was a "corporate-funded campaigning group". IPN ran campaigns on issues such as trade, development, healthcare and the environment. IPN’s campaigns were pro- free market . According to its website , "IPN aims to empower individuals and promote respect for people and property in order to eliminate poverty , improve human health and protect

456-481: Was alarmed by the election of a Labour government, the nationalisation of industry, and the introduction of central economic planning. In 1945, he had read The Road to Serfdom by Austrian economist F. A. Hayek which influenced his thinking. Fisher sought out Hayek at the London School of Economics (where he taught) and talked about his plans to go into politics. Hayek, however, convinced him that think-tanks were

480-506: Was born on 28 June 1915, into a wealthy mining family. He was two years old when his father was killed by a sniper in Gaza during World War I. Fisher was educated at Eton College . He graduated from Trinity College, Cambridge , with a degree in engineering. Fisher also excelled at dancing while studying at Trinity. During the Second World War , Fisher served as a fighter pilot in

504-478: Was founded as a UK charity by Sir Antony Fisher in 1971. The mission of this body is to "Promote the advancement of learning by research into economic and political science and the publication of such research". The charity’s original name was The International Institute for Economic Research, and now is The Atlas Economic Research Foundation (UK), but operates under the name International Policy Network. IPN’s sister organization, International Policy Network US Inc.,

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528-527: Was founded in 2002. The prize recognises and rewards journalists and commentators who support the free society. This year, IPN will award the first Bastiat Prize for Online Journalism. IPN was founded by Antony Fisher in the UK as the International Institute for Economic Research (IIER) in 1971. Fisher went on to found the Atlas Economic Research Foundation in the US in 1981, and from this point

552-517: Was killed when his Hurricane was shot down over Flanders during the Dunkirk evacuation. On 15 August 1940, Fisher saw his brother Basil plummet to his death after Basil's Hurricane was shot down and his parachute caught fire. The experience both traumatised Fisher and, according to a biography, galvanised him into a belief that he must act to make the world a freer and more prosperous place where nation states would not go to war. After World War II, Fisher

576-511: Was through the Atlas Network that Fisher was able to extend his beliefs worldwide. By 1984, Fisher was watching over eighteen institutions in eleven countries. As of 2017, Atlas supports and works with nearly 500 free-market think-tanks in over 90 different countries. In his book Thinking the Unthinkable , Richard Cockett sketched Fisher's role in supporting other emerging think-tanks around

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