International Journal of Inactivism

You are in a maze of little twisting think-tanks, all different: Dobrý den!

cite as: F. Bi. 2009. You are in a maze of little twisting think-tanks, all different: Dobrý den! Intl. J. Inact., 2:91

It seems that Czech President Václav Klaus, in his effort to promote global warming inaction, has started a new (advocacy? policy study?) group called the Prague Network. [cached]

Now this isn’t very interesting in itself; what is interesting, well, is that there’s a web site praguenetwork.org owned by the Competitive Enterprise Institute, a group which is — let’s put it this way — not based in Prague. [cached]

(Hmm. So how does the free-market think-tank-o-sphere work exactly? Does a new ‘free-market group’ undergo some sort of ‘incubation programme’ during which they live on some larger group’s web space, until they attract enough hack writers to get their own web site?)

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  1. William Connolley said, on 2009-10-25 at 15:59

    Did he invite Lubos?

  2. frankbi said, on 2009-10-27 at 12:04

    William Connolley:

    No sign that he did, but who knows…

  3. Brian D said, on 2009-10-30 at 20:55

    Clearly, this is globalization’s natural conclusion. I mean, break down borders definitively enough, and I’m positive you could claim that the CEI is based in Prague.

  4. AntiquatedTory said, on 2009-11-27 at 21:52

    I suppose CEI might be hosting it for Klaus et al. I haven’t looked into the CEI, but the title sounds like the kind of people who would be buddies with Klaus.


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