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The Copenhagen Institute is Denmark's first free-market think tank. It was founded in 2003 hosting a conference on tax competition. It has a clear libertarian leaning.


The Copenhagen Institute was originally called MarkedsCentret, but changed its name in 2005.


The think tank works on policy areas such as: Tax & Welfare, Health Care & Food, Competition & Regulation and Environment & Technology.


The think tank was founded by Chresten Anderson, who previously worked for the Cato Institute in Washington DC. The Cato Institute is an influential non-profit public policy research foundation (think tank) with strong libertarian leanings (despite wide public perception that it is a conservative think-tank), headquartered in Washington, D.C. It is named after Catos Letters, a series of early 18th century British essays expounding...


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The Cato Institute is an influential non-profit public policy research foundation (think tank) with strong libertarian leanings (despite wide public perception that it is a conservative think-tank), headquartered in Washington, D.C. It is named after Catos Letters, a series of early 18th century British essays expounding... Libertarianism is a modern political philosophy that strongly advocates the maximization of individual rights, private property rights, and free market capitalism. ... A free market is an idealized market, where all economic decisions and actions by individuals regarding transfer of money, goods, and services are voluntary, and are therefore devoid of coercion and theft (some definitions of coercion are inclusive of theft). Colloquially and loosely, a free market economy is an economy...

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  • Copenhagen Institutes Web Site

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