Institut Economique Molinari

Institut Economique Molinari
founded in the year	2003
acronym	IEM
City	Brussels
Country	Belgium
Website	http://www.institutmolinari.org/
address	c/o Sofiscal, Avenue de Fré 139/ 53-54, 1180, Brüssel
founder	Cécile Philippe
number of employees	13
Networks	Stockholm Network, Think Tank, New Direction Foundation, Think Tank, European Policy Information Center
Virtual Networks A "Virtual Network" is a group of Think Tanks identified by certain semantic and normative (ideological) commonalities (e.g. climate change scepticism). Such a virtual network constitutes a research field that differs from the study of formal networks. Formal networks are real in the sense of officially acknowledged and immediately open to empirical validation. Virtual networks on the other hand display shared ideas. Social network analysis tools can be applied to find out if or to what extent virtual networks are real networks that display linkages (membership in networks, personnel, resources etc.). Unconnected think tanks in turn can be considered special cases in need of explanation independent from network structures (unless we have to assume invisible, hidden or covered ties).	Austerity politics
Last revision	5.10.2016
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 = 14
Presences n = 124
<pPie size=330x200 Legend> Think Tank,34 Business,4 Media,45 Politics,3 Academia,34 NGO,4 </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.
<pPie size=330x200 Legend> Author,51 Leader (CEO etc.),6 Consultant,1 Editor,6 Interviewee,18 Member,13 Participant,9 Lecturer,12 Employee,8 </pPie>

The following coordinate was not recognized: 50.8043404;4.3546839.The following coordinate was not recognized: 50.8043404;4.3546839. The IEM was named after the Belgian economist Gustave de Molinari (1819-1912). It promotes economic aspects for the evaluation of policy measures.

Organizational Structure and Funding

Apart from the post of the director, held by Philippe, Cécil, there is no information on the organizational set-up of the IEM. Neither is information available on its financial resources.

Address

c/o Sofiscal, Avenue de Fré 139/ 53-54, 1180, Brüssel

People

Executive board

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

• Cécile Philippe, Director

Staff

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

• Pierre-Louis Boitel, Associate researcher

• Pierre Desrochers, Associate researcher

• Gabriel Calzada Alvarez, Associate researcher

• Mathieu Bédard, Associate researcher

• Gimenéz-Roche Gabriel A., Associate researcher

• Vincent Bénard, Associate researcher

• Vincent Poncet, Associate researcher

• Sautet Friedrich, Associate researcher

• Martin Masse, Associate researcher

• Guillaume Vuillemey (since 2007), Associate researcher

• Valentin Petkantchin, Academic staff

• Nicolas Marques, Associate researcher

• Neel Chamilall, Associate researcher

• Jörg Guido Hülsmann, Visiting Researcher

• Alex Korbel (since January 2010), Associate researcher

Advisory board

People advising the Think Tank (mainly in scientific questions)

• Hardy Bouillon (since 2003)

Working mode, goals

The IEM publishes studies, opinion pieces and press articles. Furthermore, IEM staff (mainly Philippe, Cécile and Petkantchin, Valentin) acts in public, e.g. by giving presentation. In 2010 the institute was mentioned by the media in 37 cases. In 2009 this number was as high as 92. In 2009 and 2010 the institute published 9 press releases. The IEM closely cooperates with the Competitive Enterprise Insitute, the Ludwig von Mises Institute, and the Institute for Economic Education.

Cooperations with Think Tanks

• New Direction - The Foundation for European Reform
• Liberalismo Whig
• Manhattan Institute
• Liberté Chérie
• Institute of African Economics
• Reason Foundation
• Cobden Centre
• Timbro
• Istituto Bruno Leoni
• Adam Smith Institute
• Institut Coppet
• Institut Turgot
• Atlas Economic Research Foundation Network
• Institute for Economic Studies Europe (IES)
• Library of Economics and Liberty
• The Independent Institute
• Montreal Economic Institute
• Institut Euro 92
• Institut Constant de Rebecque
• Institute for Research in Economics and Fiscal Issues (IREF)
• Competitive Enterprise Institute
• Ludwig von Mises Institute Europe
• Institute for Economic Education
• Stockholm Network

Think Tanks that claim to cooperate with the Institut Economique Molinari

While the section above shows Think Tanks the Institut Economique Molinari claims to cooperate with, the list below shows Think Tanks that claim to cooperate with the Institut Economique Molinari.

• European Coalition for Economic Growth
• New Direction - The Foundation for European Reform
• The Kosciuszko Institute

Cooperations with Non-Think Tanks

• http://www.canol.fr/
• http://marche-libre.net/
• http://www.tcsdaily.com/
• http://www.sauvegarde-retraites.org/
• http://herve.dequengo.free.fr/auteurs.htm
• http://www.quebecoislibre.org/
• http://praxeology.net/
• http://www.liberalia.com/
• http://lemennicier.bwm-mediasoft.com/
• http://www.quelleretraite.com/
• http://www.isria.com/

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.

• International Trade/Globalization
• Health and Consumer Policy
• Financial Programming and the Budget
• Employment, Social Affairs and Inclusion
• Information Society and Media
• Economy

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.

• Debt reduction (Austerity Politics): Opts for a reduction of public expenditures as well as the tax burden to restore the credibility of french financial policy.