Captus

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Captus
City Malmö
Country Sweden
Website http://www.captus.nu/
address Adelgatan 6, 201 25, Malmö
founder Nima Sanandaji, Christofer Pihl, Anders Nyman
Networks Stockholm Network, New Direction Foundation, Think Tank
Last revision 14.12.2012
Output of Captus 2024
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Books, Peer reviewed pubs., Studies, Articles, Policy papers, Op-eds, Newspaper articles, Blogs, Periodicals, Podcasts (audio), Podcasts (video), Conferences, Seminars/workshops, Lecturers/talks, Briefings, Others, </pbars>

Presence of Think Tank affiliates in the various fieldsWe try to capture where people affiliated with a Think Tank - affiliates are employees, members of the advisory and supervisory board etc. - are present: if they write in the media, teach in universities or work for another Think Tank. The chart down below shows in which fields the affiliates are present. Every presence is counted once.
People n = 18
Presences n = 227
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Think Tank,68 Business,22 Media,67 Politics,27 Academia,22 NGO,21 </pPie>

Kind of activities of Think Tank affiliatesWe try to capture where people affiliated with a Think Tank - affiliates are employees, members of the advisory and supervisory board etc. - are present: if they write in the media, teach in universities or work for another Think Tank. The chart down below shows which kind of activities the affiliates conduct. Every presence is counted once.
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Author,105 Leader (CEO etc.),35 Consultant,13 Editor,9 Interviewee,7 Member,7 Participant,11 Lecturer,21 Employee,19 </pPie>

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Organizational Structure and Funding

Captus has eight staff members and seven supervisory board members.

Address

Adelgatan 6, 201 25, Malmö

People

Executive board

People leading the Think Tank in the day to day business (CEOs, directorates etc.).

Staff

People working for the Think Tank (Fellows etc.). This includes also part-time employees.

... further results

Advisory board

People advising the Think Tank (mainly in scientific questions)



Detailed funding activities

If possible we also list more detailed funding activities of Think Tanks. This includes funds they emit as well as funds they receive.

Received funds

Working mode, goals

The Insitute organizes seminars and does a lot of public relations by publishing and making its presence felt on events. From 2005 until May 2010 Captus' employees placed more than 750 articles in press. Additionally, the Think Tank edited the liberal conservative weekly newspaper "Captus Tidning", which was closed down in 2008[1]. According to their own website they published more than 600 articles since 2005. Captus seems not to be very active anymore. The most recent activities documented on their website date back to the beginning of 2011 (24th of January). They conducted more than 20 lectures, but most of them before 2010 (therefore they are not part of our statistic at the moment). Both studies counted here dont seem to be very academic. Nonetheless both cite sources and are of reasonable amount. The weekly newspaper "Captus Tidning" was closed down in 2008. The - according to their own website - more than 600 articles are not regarded in the output-statistic.


Topics

We used the DGs of the EU to generate a basic list of topics. This list is going to be steadily extended. However we try to preserve a persistent list of topics.

  • Competition
  • Home Affairs
  • Taxation and Customs Union, Audit and Anti-Fraud

Semantic Fields

What we call here a semantic field is the idea to categorize think tanks in a two level system. The first levels are so called 'Virtual Networks' and the second are the semantic fields. Accordingly every semantic field entered here has to be attached to a virtual network. If you would like to follow a special phenomenon among think tanks please contact us and we are going to add a new virtual network. Semantic fields are topics that promote a virtual network. Lets take climate change as an example: 'climate change skeptics' is the virtual network and 'adaption instead of mitigation' would be one possible semantic field.

  • in opposition to prevailing climate protection policy[4][5] Keyfigures: Nima Sanandaji


References

  1. http://captustidning.se/
  2. Nima Sanandaji (CEO of Captus until Summer 2012) with Fred Goldberg: The Global Warming Scam - http://archive.lewrockwell.com/orig6/sanandaji9.html (2006)
  3. Skatter och samhällsekonomi
  4. argument against the ideological /political use and exploitation of climate science: http://www.captustidning.se/index_magazine.php?page=article&id=499 (2007)
  5. implicite recognition of acc - yet rejection of carbon taxes as counterproductive and growth impeding: http://newdirectionfoundation.org/EUdirecttax.pdf (2012)