Tom G. Palmer

Tom Gordon Palmer ( born 1956 in Bitburg- Mötsch ) is an American journalist and libertarian activist.

Career

After studying in Annapolis and at the Catholic University of America in Washington, DC he received his doctorate in political science at Hertford College, Oxford. Since the 1970s, Palmer is involved in the dissemination of classical liberal and libertarian ideas.

He is a senior fellow at the Cato Institute and vice president, founded by Antony Fisher Atlas Economic Research Foundation, where he co-ordinates the international program to build classical liberal and libertarian think tanks. He is also the staff at the Institute for Humane Studies and the Liberty Fund.

In the period before and during the opening of the Iron Curtain, he lived in Vienna and led actions for dissemination of liberal ideas in Central and Eastern Europe. He has given seminars and smuggled literature, copiers, fax machines and money in the communist countries. Even after the end of the Soviet Union travels and projects lead him to the former communist countries. Since the 2010s, he is also increasingly in the Middle East involved with trying there to spread liberal ideas. A cornerstone of his work is to have prepared translations of the works of classical liberal and libertarian thinkers such as Frédéric Bastiat, Ludwig von Mises, Friedrich August von Hayek or Milton Friedman and spread. He also works with the Students for Liberty.

In the book, Realizing Freedom: Libertarian Theory, History, and Practice essays and articles are summarized.

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