Centrum im. Adama Smitha
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Adam Smith Center is a think-tank based in Poland. It was founded in 1989 based on an earlier group of anti-communist opposition and named after Adam Smith
and similar eponymous institute
based in the United Kingdom. Among its members are roughly 50 economists, political scientists and sociologists. The organization also publishes the Polish Tax Freedom Day
analysis.
Although non-partisan, the center espouses free market
and classical liberal views. Among its members are Robert Gwiazdowski, Cezary Józefiak, Jan Winiecki, Andrzej Sadowski, Andrzej J. Piotrowski, Przemysław Wipler, Andrzej Szczęśniak, Ireneusz Jabłoński and Krzysztof Dzierżawski.
The center was officially created on September 16, 1989, soon after the Polish Round Table Agreement
and the start of a peaceful transition to democracy in Poland. However, most of its initial members came from the Akcja Gospodarcza society (est. 1988), a loose group of free market-oriented economists supporting the opposition to communist government of Poland.
Adam Smith
Adam Smith was a Scottish social philosopher and a pioneer of political economy. One of the key figures of the Scottish Enlightenment, Smith is the author of The Theory of Moral Sentiments and An Inquiry into the Nature and Causes of the Wealth of Nations...
and similar eponymous institute
Adam Smith Institute
The Adam Smith Institute, abbreviated to ASI, is a think tank based in the United Kingdom, named after one of the founders of modern economics, Adam Smith. It espouses free market and classical liberal views, in particular by creating radical policy options in the light of public choice theory,...
based in the United Kingdom. Among its members are roughly 50 economists, political scientists and sociologists. The organization also publishes the Polish Tax Freedom Day
Tax Freedom Day
Tax Freedom Day is the first day of the year in which a nation as a whole has theoretically earned enough income to fund its annual tax burden. It is annually calculated in the United States by the Tax Foundation—a Washington, D.C.-based tax research organization...
analysis.
Although non-partisan, the center espouses free market
Free market
A free market is a competitive market where prices are determined by supply and demand. However, the term is also commonly used for markets in which economic intervention and regulation by the state is limited to tax collection, and enforcement of private ownership and contracts...
and classical liberal views. Among its members are Robert Gwiazdowski, Cezary Józefiak, Jan Winiecki, Andrzej Sadowski, Andrzej J. Piotrowski, Przemysław Wipler, Andrzej Szczęśniak, Ireneusz Jabłoński and Krzysztof Dzierżawski.
The center was officially created on September 16, 1989, soon after the Polish Round Table Agreement
Polish Round Table Agreement
The Polish Round Table Talks took place in Warsaw, Poland from February 6 to April 4, 1989. The government initiated the discussion with the banned trade union Solidarność and other opposition groups in an attempt to defuse growing social unrest.-History:...
and the start of a peaceful transition to democracy in Poland. However, most of its initial members came from the Akcja Gospodarcza society (est. 1988), a loose group of free market-oriented economists supporting the opposition to communist government of Poland.