University-Based Efforts

In addition to its core work with independent think tanks, Atlas has a long history of helping academics find opportunities to improve the understanding of the causes and consequences of freedom.

For example, Atlas Teach Freedom Initiative  envisions a network of university-based centers, respectful of the ideas of freedom, as large and diverse as the existing network of independent think tanks.  

Atlas Fund for the Study of Spontaneous Orders  aims at encouraging scholars in diverse fields to apply the perspective of methodological individualism, associated with Ludwing Von Mises and other members of the Austrian School of Economics, to broaden the understanding of the development of spontaneous orders, particularly in the areas of anthropology, sociology, philosophy, and political theory.

Over the years, Atlas has been able to provide several million dollars via course grants, scholarships, seminar sponsorships, and research grants to the work of academics who share the Atlas vision.  This is all thanks to generous donors who have sponsored Atlas efforts in this arena, such as the John Templeton Foundation, which funded The Freedom Project  and the International Freedom Project  at Atlas from 1999-2002 reaching thousands of students via 68 new courses on freedom, taught in the U.S. and 25 other countries.