Eamonn Butler
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Eamonn Butler is Director and co-founder of the Adam Smith 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,...

 think tank, and an author and broadcaster on economic and social issues.

Career

Dr Butler graduated from the University of St Andrews
University of St Andrews
The University of St Andrews, informally referred to as "St Andrews", is the oldest university in Scotland and the third oldest in the English-speaking world after Oxford and Cambridge. The university is situated in the town of St Andrews, Fife, on the east coast of Scotland. It was founded between...

 in the 1970s; he has degrees in philosophy, economics and psychology. He worked on pensions and welfare issues for the United States House of Representatives
United States House of Representatives
The United States House of Representatives is one of the two Houses of the United States Congress, the bicameral legislature which also includes the Senate.The composition and powers of the House are established in Article One of the Constitution...

 in Washington DC, before returning to the UK where he served as editor of the British Insurance Broker monthly before devoting himself full-time to the Adam Smith 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,...

, which he helped found in 1977.

Recognition

Dr Butler and his colleague Dr Madsen Pirie
Madsen Pirie
Dr Duncan Madsen Pirie, PhD is a British researcher, author, and educator. He is the founder and current President of the Adam Smith Institute, a UK think tank which has been in operation since 1978.-Early life and education:...

 received the 2010 National Free Enterprise Award, and he is one of Total Politics
Total Politics
Total Politics is a British political magazine described as a "a lifestyle magazine for the political community". It was first published in June 2008 and is distributed freely to all MPs, MEPs, peers, political journalists, members of the Scottish, Welsh and Northern Irish assemblies, and all...

 magazine’s Top 50 Political Influencers in the UK, ranking Number 30 on their list.

He has also won the Freedom Medal of the Freedoms Foundation at Valley Forge
Freedoms Foundation at Valley Forge
The Freedoms Foundation at Valley Forge is a national, non-profit, non-partisan, non-sectarian educational organization, founded in 1949. The Foundation is located adjacent to the Valley Forge National Historical Park, near Valley Forge, Pennsylvania, U.S., and sits on ground that was once part of...

 in the USA, and is Vice-President of the Mont Pelerin Society
Mont Pelerin Society
The Mont Pelerin Society is an international organization composed of economists , philosophers, historians, intellectuals, business leaders, and others who favour classical liberalism...

, an international body of economists.

Writing

Dr Butler is author of academic books on the work of three of this century's leading economists: Hayek: His Contribution to the Economic and Political Thought of Our Time; Milton Friedman
Milton Friedman
Milton Friedman was an American economist, statistician, academic, and author who taught at the University of Chicago for more than three decades...

: A Guide to his Economic Thought
; Ludwig von Mises
Ludwig von Mises
Ludwig Heinrich Edler von Mises was an Austrian economist, philosopher, and classical liberal who had a significant influence on the modern Libertarian movement and the "Austrian School" of economic thought.-Biography:-Early life:...

: A Primer
; Ludwig von Mises
Ludwig von Mises
Ludwig Heinrich Edler von Mises was an Austrian economist, philosopher, and classical liberal who had a significant influence on the modern Libertarian movement and the "Austrian School" of economic thought.-Biography:-Early life:...

: Fountainhead of the Modern Microeconomics Revolution
.

He has written several books on current economic topics, including: The Best Book on the Market; The Rotten State of Britain; The Alternative Manifesto ; and (with Robert Schuettinger), Forty Centuries of Wage and Price Controls.

Dr Butler is also co-author of a number of books on intelligence and IQ testing.

He has contributed extensively to national magazines and newspapers on subjects ranging from health policy, economic management, taxation and public spending, transport, pensions, and e-government.

Dr Butler has edited or contributed to Adam Smith 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,...

 reports on many policy subjects, such as transport (Private Road Ahead, Roads and the Private Sector, and A Decade of Bus Deregulation), health (The Health of Nations, The Health Alternatives, Health Management Units, Good Health: The Role of HMOs, and Scottish Health Markets), long-term care (Quest for Care, The Future of Long-Term Care, and Extending Care), pensions and welfare (The Future of Pensions, The Fortune Account, The End of the Welfare State, Singapore versus Chile and The Great Escape).

Book List


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