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Events and Highlights


  • 26 January 2012
  • Report Launch: Rwandan reforms
    New Legatum Institute report examines reform progress in Rwanda.
  • 13 January 2012
  • LI & Foreign Policy launch new website
    The Legatum Institute and Foreign Policy Magazine announced today the launch of Democracy Lab, a new website dedicated to covering political and economic transitions around the world.
  • 13 January 2012
  • Book Forum: Deirdre McCloskey
    The Legatum Institute hosted Deirdre McCloskey, distinguished professor of economics, history, English and communication at the University of Illinois for a discussion on her book 'Bourgeois Dignity - Why Economics Can't Explain the Modern World'.
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LI in the News


30 January 2012
The Eurozone’s car crash can be less of a wreck - Dalibor Rohac, City A.M.

The European Central Bank should target nominal GDP to make life more predictable.

27 January 2012
The new theories of moral sentiments - Dalibor Rohac, WSJ Europe

The economic historian who is bringing love, faith, courage and virtue back into her discipline. LI's Dalibor Rohac shares his impressions of Deirdre McCloskey.

27 January 2012
The power of tribes - Schumpeter column, The Economist

Businesspeople need to reckon with the Anglosphere, the Sinosphere and the Indosphere. The Economist studies LI's 'The New World Order' report which looks at the world through the prism of culture.

24 January 2012
Guns and butter - Christian Caryl, Democracy Lab

Countries around the world are finding that military involvement in private business is a major barrier to reform. But pensioning off CEOs in uniform is easier said than done - from the Democracy Lab.

23 January 2012
Mauritius, the little democracy that could - Neil Reynolds, The Globe and Mail

Could 2012 turn out to be the year in which the forces of democracy triumph around the world? Neil Reynolds discusses the launch of the Democracy Lab, LI's joint venture with Foreign Policy.


Publications




Economic Lessons from Scandinavia


India: Surveys of Entrepreneurs


Nigeria: Survey of Entrepreneurs


6 Questions about Africa and Answers from Rwanda