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«Ensuciad (litter) el mundo con think-tanks ultraliberales (libertarian)» es la frase atribuida a Sir Antony Fisher, fundador de la Atlas Economic Research Foundation.
Si quiere usted fundar un think tank para ayudar a la causa de la ingeniería social neoliberal y necesita dinero y apoyo logístico, acuda a la Atlas Economic Research Foundation. Obtendrá dinero y prebendas. Esta organización es el núcleo del big bang de think tanks que inundaron el mundo desde los años 1980, y resulta difícil saber cuántos, que en todo caso se cuentan por centenares, han sido promovidos por ella.
Hoy, la red cuenta con más de 400 think-tanks de promoción doctrinal, ubicados en 80 países. Todos ellos, en distintos grados de activismo, han sido negacionistas climáticos.
Atlas se ha enorgullecido siempre de su independencia.
Ficha técnica
Fundador:
Sir Antony Fisher
Miembro de la Mont Pélérin Society
Presidente del Hispanic American Center of Economic Research
Patrono de la Chase Foundation
Ha pertenecido, entre otros al Acton Institute for the Study of Religion and Liberty, al Fraser Institute y a la Fundación Internacional por la Libertad (Mario Vargas Llosa, Madrid)
Se le atribuye la frase: «litter the world with free-market think-tanks»
Año de fundación:
1981
Presidente:
Alejandro A. Chafuen
Miembro de la Mont Pélérin Society
Fundador y presidente de la Hispanic American Center for Economic Research
Miembro del consejo del Acton Institute for the Study of Liberty and Religion
Miembro del consejo del Fraser Institute
Miembro del consejo de la Fundación Internacional para la Libertad (Madrid)
Presidente: Mario Vargas Llosa
Director:
Brad Lips
Sede actual:
Washington
Negacionistas de referencia:
Paul Driessen
Geólogo
Autor de «Eco-Imperialism: Green Power – Black Death»
Editor de «Rules for Corporate Warriors: How to fight and survive attack group shakedowns»
Director de Economic Human Rights Project
Senioor fellow de Committee for a Constructive Tomorrow
Senioor fellow de Frontiers of Freedom Institute
Senioor fellow del Center for the Defense of Free Enterprise
Otro personal
John Blundell
Miembro del Consejo
Miembro del Consejo del Institute for Humane Studies de la George Mason University
Miembro del Consejo del Institute of Economic Studies (París)
Director de la International Policy Network
Asesor de la Tax Payers Alliance
Ex-Presidente (1987–1991)
Ex-Presidente del Institute for Humane Studies (1988–1991) de la George Mason University
Ex-Presidente de las fundaciones Charles G. Koch and Claude R. Lambe (hermanos Koch) (1991–1992)
Ex-Director General del Institute of Economic Affairs (Londres)
Entre 1993 y 1997 fue cofundador y presidente del Institute for Children, Institute for Justice, y The Fraser Institute
Ex-vicepresidente del consejo de la Mont Pelerin Society
Seguidor del «objetivismo» de Ayn Rand, radicalmente capitalista y ultraliberal
E. Calvin Beisner
Asesor
Adjunct fellow del Acton Institute for the Study of Religion and Liberty
Fundamentalista cristiano activo de la rama dominionista, que ha convencido a la derecha religiosa estadounidense de que el ecologismo constituye una amenaza para la cristiandad.
Miembro del consejo del Committee for a Constructive Tomorrow
Javier Morillas
Catedrático de Economía Aplicada. Universidad CEU-San Pablo
Jo Kwong
Staff de la Philanthropy Roundtable
Miembros de Atlas pertenecientes a la Mont Pélérin Society (2010)
Guillermo M. Yeatts (Argentina)
Alejandro A. Chafuen (Argentina)
Leonard P. Liggio (EE.UU, ex-presidente de la MPS)
Tom G. Palmer (EE.UU)
William Sumner (EE.UU, miembro vitalicio de la MPS)
Misión declarada:
To litter the world with free-market think-tanks. (Cita de Anthony Fisher, eliminada de la web de Atlas)
«Atlas identifica, escanea y ofrece soporte inicial a individuos y grupos que desean crear think tanks locales. Sirve de catalizador y conector entreorganizaciones e individuos partidarios del libre mercado con las ideas, personas y recursos necesarios para promocionar una sociedad libre.»
Orientación religiosa:
Desconocida o no declarada, pero próxima al fundamentalismo cristiano
Orientación económica:
Ultraliberal, escuela austríaca
Agencias de PR:
Global-Comm Partners
Wirthlin Worldwide
Medios de comunicación:
Posicionamiento negacionista climático:
Es el sol
Estabilizar los gases de efecto invernadero requeriría entre 19 y 40 tratados, causando impactos sociales y económicos ruinosos y distrayendo recursos para problemas resolubles como el SIDA, la malaria, la pobreza y la prevención sanitaria
Colabora con el Heartland Institute en la organización de congresos negacionistas
Otros negacionismos:
Económico
Actividades:
Creación de think tanks en todo el mundo
Torpedeo de la cumbre de Johannesburgo (2002)
Copatrocina actividades negacionistas climáticas con el Heartland Institute
Miembro de:
Cooler Heads Coalition
Philanthropy Roundtable
State Policy Network
Think tanks partners
American Enterprise Institute
Cato Institute
Competitive Enterprise Institute
Fraser Institute (Canadá)
Heritage Foundation
Stockholm Network
Hayek Institute (Austria)
Libertad y Desarrollo (Chile)
La John Templeton Foundation financia los premios Templeton Freedom Awards, elegidos y entregados por la Atlas Economic Research Foundation
Miembros en España:
Civismo (Pamplona, Navarra)
Fundacion Burke (Madrid)
Fundacion Iberoamerica Europa (Madrid)
Fundación Internacional por la Libertad (presidente: Mario Vargas Llosa)
Institución Futuro (Huarte, Navarra)
Instituto Juan de Mariana
Miembros en Bruselas
European Enterprise Institute
Institut Economique Molinari
Ludwig von Mises Institute Europe
LVSV Hasselt
European Centre for International Political Economy
Cuenta también con 74 think tanks en países de habla hispana
Think tanks negacionistas climáticos fuera de EE.UU financiados por Atlas:
Argentina: La Fundación Atlas 1853
Australia: Institute of Public Affairs; Centre for Independent Studies
Brazil: Instituto Liberdade
Bulgaria: Institute for Market Economics
Burkina Faso: Le Centre des Affaires Humaines
Canada: Frontier Centre for Public Policy
China: Cathay Institute for Public Affairs
Chile: Libertad y Desarrollo
Costa Rica: Asociación de Consumidores Libres
Czech Republic: Liberální Institut
Denmark: Center for Political Studies
Ecuador: Instituto Ecuatoriano de Economía Política
España: Instituto Juan de Mariana
Georgia: New Economic School
Ghana: IMANI Center for Policy and Education
Honduras: Instituto Veritas
Hong Kong: Lion Rock Institute
India: Liberty Institute
Israel: Jerusalem Institute for Market Studies
Italy: Instituto Bruno Leoni
Lithuania: Lithuanian Free Market Institute
Nigeria: Initiative for Public Policy Analysis
Pakistan: Alternate Solutions Institute
Paraguay: Centro Paraguayo Para la Promoción de la Libertad Económica y la Justicia Social
Peru: Instituto de Libre Empresa
Poland: Globalization Institute
Slovakia: Institute of Economic and Social Studies
South Africa: Free Market Foundation
Switzerland: Liberales Institut
Turkey: Association for Liberal Thinking
Venezuela: Centro de Divulgación de Conocimiento Económico Para la Libertad
Fuente: Josh Harkinson – Climate change deniers without borders: how American oil money is pumping up climate change skeptics abroad-and how they could derail any progress made in Copenhagen – Mother Jones, 22/12/2009 – http://www.motherjones.com/environment/2009/12/climate-deniers-atlas-foundation
Origen de la financiación documentada:
Carthage Foundation 2003-2009: $1,195,000 (Prague Security Studies Institute)
Charles G. Koch Foundation
Claude R. Lambe Foundation
Total fundaciones Koch 2005-2008: $122,300
Organización instrumental que permite el anonimato de los donantes
Dunn’s Foundation for the Advancement of Right Thinking
Earhart Foundation: 1998-2002: $500,000; 2004-2008: $2,963,235
ExxonMobil 1998-2005: $680.000; 2008: $100,000
John M. Olin: $5,000 (documental sobre F. Hayek)
John Templeton Foundation
Philip Morris 1995: $475,000; 1997: $150,000
Roe Foundation 1998-2009: $217,500
Ruth and Lovett Peters Foundation 1998-2006: $78,000
Sarah Scaife Foundation 1985-2009: $2,270,000
William H. Donner Foundation
Recibió un total de $$5,759,639 en 2010
Activos en 2010: $2,041,352
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Destino de la financiación documentada
Desde su fundación, Atlas ha canalizado más de $20.000.000 hacia las organizaciones cuya creación promueve. Sigue una lista (muy) incompleta. Sólo disponen de enlaces las organizaciones cona ctividades conocidas de negacionismo climático.
Acton Institute for the Sutdy of Religion and Liberty
Adam Smith Institute
African Research Institute for Public Policy and Market Process in Kenya
American Tradition Institute
Cathay Institute for Public Affairs (China)
Centre for Civil Society
Centre for Independent Studies
Centre pour la Libre Entreprise et la Démocratie (Haití)
Centro de Divulgación del Conocimiento Económico – CEDICE (Venezuela)
China Center for Economic Research (Beijing)
Circle of Tradition and Progress, London
Civic Institute (Praga)
Fraser Institute
Free Market Center, Belgrade, Serbia
Fundación Internacional por la Libertad
Madrid, presidido por Mario Vargas Llosa
Fundación para el Desarrollo Integral de la Sociedad (República Dominicana)
George Mason University
Hispanic American Center for Economic Research
Liberty Institute, New Delhi
Liberty Institute, Romania
Manhattan Institute for Policy Research
National Center for Policy Analysis
National Economic Research Institute, China
Reform Foundation
Pacific Research Institute
Sam Adams Alliance
Unirule Institute of Economics, Beijing
Fuentes
Referencias:
Sally Covington (1998) – How Conservative Philanthropy and Think Tanks Transform US Policy – Covert Action Quarterly, Winter 1998 – http://mediafilter.org/CAQ/caq63/caq63thinktank.html
«Proclaiming their movement a war of ideas, conservatives began to mobilize resources for battle in the 1960s. They built new institutional bastions; recruited, trained, and equipped their intellectual warriors; forged new weapons as cable television, the Internet, and other communications technologies evolved; and threw their resources into policy and political battles. By 1984, moderate Republican John Saloma warned of a «major new presence in American politics.» If left unchecked, he accurately predicted, «the new conservative labyrinth» would pull the nation’s political center sharply to the right. Today, that labyrinth is larger, more sophisticated, and increasingly able to influence what gets on and what stays off the public policy agenda. From the decision to abandon the federal guarantee of cash assistance to the poor, to changes in the federal tax structure, to interest in medical savings accounts and the privatization of Social Security, conservative policy ideas and rhetoric have come to dominate the nation’s political conversation, reflecting what political scientist Walter Dean Burnham has called a «hegemony of market theology.» Spearheading the assault has been a core group of 12 conservative foundations: the Lynde and Harry Bradley Foundation, the Carthage Foundation, the Earhart Foundation, the Charles G. Koch, David H. Koch and Claude R. Lambe charitable foundations, the Phillip M. McKenna Foundation, the JM Foundation, the John M. Olin Foundation, the Henry Salvatori Foundation, the Sarah Scaife Foundation, and the Smith Richardson Foundation. In 1994,they controlled more than $1.1 billion in assets; from 1992-94, they awarded $300 million in grants, and targeted $210 million to support a wide array of projects and institutions. Over the last two decades, the 12 have mounted an impressively coherent and concerted effort to shape public policy by undermining and ultimately redirecting what they regard as the institutional .»
Jonathan Owen and Paul Bignell – Think-tanks take oil money and use it to fund climate deniers – The Independent, 07/02/2010 – http://www.independent.co.uk/environment/climate-change/thinktanks-take-oil-money-and-use-it-to-fund-climate-deniers-1891747.html
“Free-market, anti-climate change think-tanks such as the Atlas Economic Research Foundation in the US and the International Policy Network in the UK have received grants totalling hundreds of thousands of pounds from the multinational energy company ExxonMobil. Both organisations have funded international seminars pulling together climate change deniers from across the globe … Atlas has supported more than 30 other foreign think-tanks that espouse climate change scepticism, and co-sponsored a meeting of the world’s leading climate sceptics in New York last March. Called «Global Warming: Was It Ever Really a Crisis?», it was organised by the Heartland Institute – a group that described the event as «the world’s largest-ever gathering of global warming sceptics». The organisation is another right-wing think-tank to have benefited from funding given by ExxonMobil in recent years.”
Kate Sheppard – Exxon Still Sponsoring Deniers – Mother Jones, 10/02/2010 – http://motherjones.com/blue-marble/2010/02/climate-denial-still-brought-you-exxonmobil
«Free-market, anti-climate change think-tanks such as the Atlas Economic Research Foundation in the US and the International Policy Network in the UK have received grants totalling hundreds of thousands of pounds from the multinational energy company ExxonMobil. Both organisations have funded international seminars pulling together climate change deniers from across the globe.»
Jenny Uechi – U.S. Republican Koch oil billionaires help fund the Fraser Institute. Why the Fraser Institute? – The Vancouver Observer – Published online: 28/04/2012 – – http://www.vancouverobserver.com/politics/2012/04/28/us-republican-koch-oil-billionaires-help-fund-fraser-institute-why-fraser
«A typical case might be someone like Candice Malcolm. She got her start in 2007 as the student programs assistant at the Fraser Institute, then went on to became a Koch Summer fellow, going through a “rigorous” public policy program in Washington, attending seminars at the Cato institute. She went on to work for the Atlas Economic Research Foundation, (which paid blogger Vivian Krause to her first honorarium), then rose to the executive assistant position at Alberta’s Wildrose Party. She now works in Ottawa as the Parliament press secretary.»
Friends of the Earth – Corporate-funded Lobbyists Aimed to Sabotage Johannesburg Summit – All Africa,19/08/2002 – http://allafrica.com/stories/200208190028.html
«Lobbyists from leading far right-wing organizations including Grover Norquist’s Americans for Tax Reform, American Enterprise Institute and Competitive Enterprise Institute – many who have received substantial funding from corporations such as ExxonMobil – have joined forces to sabotage the up-coming World Summit on Sustainable Development (WSSD) in Johannesburg by actively discouraging U.S participation and applauding President Bush’s decision to snub the event. Friends of the Earth has obtained a letter to President Bush sent by 31 groups and individuals applauding the President’s decision not to attend and efforts by his negotiators to prevent any progress on climate change negotiations or any new multilateral agreements.»
Miranda Blue – Santorum and the ‘Green Dragon’: Faith-Based Attacks on Environmentalism Nothing New from the Religious Right – Right Wing Watch, 21/02/2012 – http://www.rightwingwatch.org/content/santorum-and-green-dragon-faith-based-attacks-environmentalism-nothing-new-religious-right
«The Religious Right’s relatively new antipathy to environmentalism is largely the result of the hard work of E. Calvin Beisner, a purveyor of dominion theology and the leader of The Cornwall Alliance, a group with financial ties to the oil industry. The Cornwall Alliance’s sole purpose is to convince the Religious Right to buy into the Corporate Right’s climate change denialism and help them demonize environmentalists … Beisner is a CFACT board member and an “adjunct fellow” of the Acton Institute , which is primarily funded by groups like ExxonMobil, the Scaife foundations and the Koch brothers. Beisner is also an adviser to the Atlas Economic Research Foundation.»
Roy W. Spencer, Paul K. Driessen and E. Calvin Beisner (2005) – An Examination of the Scientific Ethical and Theological Implications of Climate Change Policy – Cornwall Alliance – Interfaith Stewardship Alliance – http://www.cornwallalliance.org/docs/an-examination-of-the-scientific-ethical-and-theological-implications-of-climate-change-policy.pdf
“If a global carbon-reduction policy is achievable, trying to prevent global warming by reducing energy use will result in a world that is poorer in wealth and technology, but has stable weather – assuming there are no natural solar and climate cycles that cause unstable weather. That is, the insurance policy will have paid off. Yet, by buying it, we shall still have forgone all the other benefits its purchase price might have afforded – including the capacity to adapt to climate change and other future risks.”
Bob Burton – Atlas Economic Research Foundation: the think-tank breeders – PR Watch, Third Quarter 2004 – http://www.prwatch.org/prwissues/2004Q3/atlas.html
«While Atlas calculates that its «family» comprises approximately one-third of the world’s 470 «market oriented» think tanks, it worries that «many young think tanks lack know-how regarding reaching the media and communicating a message effectively.» To help build these skills, Atlas recruited Vince Breglio, co-founder and senior executive with the market research and public relations company Wirthlin Worldwide. At its mid-August conference in Salt Lake City, Breglio gave PR tips in a two-hour workshop titled «communicating the message of liberty.» A veteran of the 1980 and 1984 Reagan Presidential campaigns, Breglio is no stranger to helping sell unpopular ideas. Internal tobacco industry documents reveal he advised both R.J. Reynolds and Philip Morris on how to handle public opposition to smoking.»
Atlas Offspring Used U.S. Funds to Oppose Chávez – PR Watch, Third Quarter 2004 – http://www.prwatch.org/prwissues/2004Q3/cedice.html
«In 1984, the Atlas Economic Research Foundation helped set up a think tank in Venezuela called the Center for the Dissemination of Economic Information (or Centro de Divulgación del Conocimiento Económico, CEDICE). But contrary to Atlas’ emphasis on independence, CEDICE has received U.S. funds to support the failed attempts to remove Venezuelan President Hugo Chávez from office. In its Summer 2004 Investor Report, Atlas writes, ‘Venezuela is not California, so no matter what happens with the recall referendum . . . the country will continue to face a daunting populist menace. All those involved with CEDICE . . . have been an invaluable and courageous voice for freedom, peace and prosperity.’.»
John J. Miller – The Very Foundation of Conservatism – The New York Times, 28/11/2005 – http://www.nytimes.com/2005/11/28/opinion/28miller.html
«According to the New York Times: «The Olin Foundation and other right-leaning philanthropies – particularly the Bradley, Scaife and Smith Richardson Foundations – provided a pool of venture capital that helped build a network of research institutions, academic fellowships and highbrow journals for the conservative movement. If it is something of a cliché these days to suggest that conservatives are winning the war of ideas, much of the credit belongs to these grant makers.»
Alejandro A. Chafuen and Leonard P . Liggio – Letter to Mr. MatthewN . Winokur, Philip Morris Management Corporation – Tobacco Documents – 14/12/1998 – President and Vicepresident, Atlas Economic Research Foundation – http://legacy.library.ucsf.edu/tid/spo83c00/pdf
“As the famed novelist Mario Vargas Llosa told an audience of more than 2000 people at our workshop in Argentina, a culture of liberty can only exist if it is nurtured, and it is the role of institutes, like those supported by Atlas, to carry on that important work … Your donation can help any of these programs become more effective in helping create and preserve a culture of liberty. That is a truly gift that truly keeps on giving throughout the years to come … … Manuscrito: ‘Thank you for your dedication to liberty’.””
Fighting the war of ideas – The Washington Times, 06/06/2004 – http://www.washingtontimes.com/news/2004/jun/6/20040606-112959-9918r/
«Pro-market ideas — spurred in part by a visit from U.S. antitax crusader and publisher Steve Forbes — have triumphed spectacularly in Slovakia. A reformist government has passed measures that American economic conservatives still only dream about, including a low, single tax rate; Chilean-style personal pension accounts in which workers can invest; and the complete elimination of estate taxes, gift taxes, and the double taxation of corporate dividends.»
Jonathan Owen and Paul Bignell – Think-tanks take oil money and use it to fund climate deniers – The Independent, 07/02/2010 – http://www.independent.co.uk/environment/climate-change/thinktanks-take-oil-money-and-use-it-to-fund-climate-deniers-1891747.html –
«Atlas has supported more than 30 other foreign think-tanks that espouse climate change scepticism, and co-sponsored a meeting of the world’s leading climate sceptics in New York last March. Called «Global Warming: Was It Ever Really a Crisis?», it was organised by the Heartland Institute – a group that described the event as «the world’s largest-ever gathering of global warming sceptics». The organisation is another right-wing think-tank to have benefited from funding given by ExxonMobil in recent years.»
Russ Barnes – Planting Seeds Worldwide – Philanthropy Roundtable – MArch/April 2005 – http://www.philanthropyroundtable.org/topic/excellence_in_philanthropy/planting_seeds_worldwide
«Sir Antony Fisher “found a new niche,” says Alejandro Chafuen, Atlas’s president. “Atlas doesn’t have an endowment as most foundations do. We aid think tank efforts by helping them establish charity tax status, raise funds, and by providing on-going consultation to help them boost productivity and improve governance. Our client organizations are in nearly 40 states and range world-wide. We choose our client organizations for their potential to encourage entrepreneurship and liberty.”»
Julian Morris – Economic Freedom the Key to Surviving Catastrophe – The Australian, 27/08/2010 – International Policy Network – http://www.policynetwork.net/development/media/economic-freedom-key-surviving-catastrophe
«Such blocking events are rare and there is no evidence of links with global warming. However, an explanation has been proposed by Mike Lockwood, an astrophysicist at the University of Reading in Britain, who shows in a recent paper that blocking events in winter are related primarily to solar activity. However, he said in an email to me that he «cannot say much (yet) about summer conditions as most of our work to date has been on wintertime». So the culprit is quite possibly the sun, not human emissions of greenhouse gases … Instead of relying on foreign aid, governments of poor countries should remove these barriers to enterprise. Then next time they are struck by a natural disaster, people will be better able to cope, and fewer will suffer and die.»
James G. McGann and Richard Sabatini (2011) – Global Think Tanks: Policy Networks and Governance – Routledge ISBN-13: 978-0415779791 – 192 págs.
«p. 78: Atlas Economic Research Foundation’s objectives: … 1) To discover intellectual entrepreneurs who share our vision; 2) To develop and support these entrepreneurs in the establishment and growth of organizations with the potential to grow Atlas’ mission; 3) To support the dissemination of their work to current and potential opinion leaders; 4) To encourage and provide support for institute leaders and staffers to develop their management, leadership and fundraising skills; 5) To alert institutes about potential funding opportunities; 6) To inform institutes about the work of their colleagues through networking, publications and conferences; and 7) To encourage institutes to create a working environment that will attract intellectual entrepreneurs and retain talented staff.»
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