European Center of Austrian Economics Foundation

European Center of Austrian Economics Foundation
founded in the year	2004
City	Vaduz
Country	Liechtenstein
Website	http://www.ecaef.li/
address	Herrengasse 12/21, FL-9490 Vaduz
founder	Michael von Liechtenstein
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	14.04.2015

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Organizational Structure and Funding

Address

Herrengasse 12/21, FL-9490 Vaduz

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