Liberty Fund
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| Founded | 1960 |
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| Founder | Pierre F. Goodrich |
| Purpose | Educational |
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| Coordinates | 39°54′28″N 86°04′48″W / 39.90778°N 86.08000°WCoordinates: 39°54′28″N 86°04′48″W / 39.90778°N 86.08000°W |
| Method | Publishing, conferences |
| Website | www |
Liberty Fund, Inc. is a nonprofit foundation headquartered in Indianapolis, Indiana, USA which promulgates the libertarian views of its founder through publishing, conferences, and educational resources. The operating mandate of the Liberty Fund was set forth in an unpublished memo written by its founder, Pierre F. Goodrich "to encourage the study of the ideal of a society of free and responsible individuals.”
Liberty Fund was founded by Goodrich in 1960. In 1997 it received an $80 million donation from Goodrich's wife, Enid, increasing its assets to over $300 million.
The Foundation has funded the publication of almost 400 titles in the fields of history, politics, philosophy, law, education, and economics. These include the Glasgow Edition of the Works and Correspondence of Adam Smith (7 vols.), the Sraffa edition of the Works and Correspondence of David Ricardo (11 vols.), Liberty Fund’s Natural Law and Enlightenment Series (31 of a projected 44 vols.), and the Historical-Critical Edition of ’s Democracy in America (4 vols.).
Liberty Fund conducts various programs, including programs which it co-sponsors with other institutions. Liberty Fund conducts about 200 all-expenses-paid conferences each year in Indianapolis and around the world.
In November 2015, it was announced that the Liberty Fund was building a $22 million headquarters in Carmel, Indiana.
In his book The Assault on Reason, former U.S. Vice President and presidential candidate Al Gore wrote that between 2002 and 2004, 97% of the attendees at Liberty Fund training seminars for judges were Republican administration appointees. Gore suggests that such conferences and seminars are one of the reasons that judges who regularly attend such conferences "are generally responsible for writing the most radical pro-corporate, antienvironmental, and activist decisions." Referring to what he calls the "Big Three," the Foundation for Research on Economics and the Environment, George Mason University's Law & Economics Center (LEC), and the Liberty Fund he adds, "These groups are not providing unbiased judicial education. They are giving multithousand-dollar vacations to federal judges to promote their radical right-wing agenda at the expense of the public interest."
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