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| name = Atlas Network

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| leader_title = Founder

| leader_name = [[Wikipedia:Antony Fisher|Antony Fisher]]

| established = {{start date and age|1981}}

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| leader_title2 = Chair

| leader_name2 = Linda Whetstone<ref>{{cite web|title=Board of Directors|url=http://www.atlasnetwork.org/about/people/board|publisher=Atlas Network|accessdate=27 December 2017}}</ref>

| leader_title3 = President

| leader_name3 = Alejandro Chafuen

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| former_name = Atlas Economic Research Foundation

| website = {{URL|https://www.atlasnetwork.org/}}

The '''Atlas Network''', formerly known as the '''Atlas Economic Research Foundation''', is a [[Wikipedia:nonprofit organization|nonprofit organization]] based in the [[Wikipedia:United States|United States]]. The group aims to [[Wikipedia:advocacy|promote]] [[Wikipedia:free-market|free-market]] economic policies across the world.<ref name=peck>{{cite book|last1=Peck|first1=Jamie|title=Constructions of Neoliberal Reason|date=2010|publisher=Oxford University Press|isbn=0191625019}}<!--|accessdate=24 November 2014--></ref> The stated mission of the Atlas Network is "To strengthen the worldwide freedom movement by cultivating a highly effective and expansive network that inspires and incentivizes all committed individuals and organizations to achieve lasting impact."<ref name=mission>{{cite web|title=Our Mission|url=https://www.atlasnetwork.org/about/our-story|publisher=Atlas Network|accessdate=27 December 2017}}</ref> The Atlas Network has awarded grants of over $20 million.<ref name=ball>{{cite book|last1=Ball|first1=Stephen|title=Global Education Inc: New Policy Networks and the Neo-liberal Imaginary|date=2012|publisher=Routledge|isbn=0415684099|page=19–40}}<!--|accessdate=24 November 2014--></ref> Atlas promotes think tanks that support private-property rights, limited government, the rule of law, and market economics.<ref name=washtimes>{{cite news|title=Fighting the war of ideas|url=http://www.washingtontimes.com/news/2004/jun/6/20040606-112959-9918r/|accessdate=24 November 2014|publisher=Washington Times|date=June 6, 2004}}</ref> Atlas Network was not named after [[How Ayn Rand and L. Ron Hubbard Came Up With Their Big Ideas - Stuff That Must Have Happened - 2012-06-14|Ayn Rand]]'s novel ''[[Wikipedia:Atlas Shrugged|Atlas Shrugged]]''.{{dox}}

==Funding==

As of 2005, Atlas had received $440,000 from [[Wikipedia:ExxonMobil|ExxonMobil]],<ref name=":1">{{Cite news|url=https://www.motherjones.com/politics/2005/05/put-tiger-your-think-tank|title=Put a Tiger In Your Think Tank|work=Mother Jones|access-date=2017-09-22|language=en-US}}</ref> and has received at least $825,000 USD from the tobacco company [[Wikipedia:Philip Morris USA|Philip Morris]].<ref name=":2">{{Cite journal|last=Smith|first=Julia|last2=Thompson|first2=Sheryl|last3=Lee|first3=Kelley|date=2016-01-01|title=The atlas network: a “strategic ally” of the tobacco industry|url=http://onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1002/hpm.2351/abstract|journal=The International Journal of Health Planning and Management|language=en|pages=n/a–n/a|doi=10.1002/hpm.2351|issn=1099-1751}}</ref> Of Atlas Network partners, 57% in the United States had received funding from the tobacco industry.<ref name=":2" /> Atlas has received funding from [[:Category:Koch Bro|Koch family foundations]].<ref name=intercept>{{cite news|last1=Fang|first1=Lee|title=Sphere of Influence: How American Libertarians Are Remaking Latin American Politics|url=https://theintercept.com/2017/08/09/atlas-network-alejandro-chafuen-libertarian-think-tank-latin-america-brazil/|accessdate=27 December 2017|publisher=The Intercept|date=August 9, 2017}}</ref>

==See also==

*{{Wikipedia-inline|Atlas Network}}

==Notes==

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