European Center of Austrian Economics Foundation

European Center of Austrian Economics Foundation
Website	http://www.ecaef.li/
founder	Michael von Liechtenstein
Last revision	27.12.2012

Organizational Structure and Funding

People

Executive board

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

• Michael von Liechtenstein, Leader (CEO etc.)

Advisory board

People advising the Think Tank (mainly in scientific questions)

• Pedro Schwartz

• Anthony De Jasay

• Kurt Leube

• Vernon Smith

• Erhard Busek

• Carl Baudenbacher

• Thorsten Hens

• Dario Antiseri

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.

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.

• Reduction of public expenditures (Austerity Politics): reflects on narrower limits of public assignments