About Catallaxy Institute Founded on March 2009 in St. Moritz, Switzerland, Catallaxy Institute is an international association whose long-term aim is to contribute to develop and divulgate the principles and values of the classical tradition of liberalism. In time, the association also wants to become an informal network of liberals and libertarians, a “creative club”: a room with a kettle where members can go for a pause and talk about their ideals while brewing some good tea, or drinking a beer, or a glass of wine. In short, Catallaxy Institute would like to be also a truly human and social experience, not only a website with articles and links. These, however, remain important as they are some of the elements of the perspective from which each one of us sees the world. Catallaxy Institute's activity can be grouped in the following three general categories:
Academic research. Catallaxy Institute aims at fostering the intellectual exchange at academic level among its members and also with interested third parties. The institute aims at developing new ideas in the following areas of primary interest: political philosophy, political theory, philosophy of law, philosophy of economics, economic policy, environmental policy. The Institute’s approach is strongly multidisciplinary and open to explore possible points of contact also with disciplines less immediately related to those of primary interest. Dissemination and exchange of ideas. In addition to academic research, the association’s main aim is to bridge the gap between academic and non-academic approaches in the discussion of issues related to the areas of primary interest, and in particular to the concepts of “liberty”, “law” and “democracy”. Art. An innovative, more direct way in which Catallaxy Institute intends to disseminate and exchange ideas about the principles of classical liberalism, is the expression of these via different forms of art. This approach is intended to offer the artistic community an opportunity to illustrate possible interpretations of these principles via their work. A reason why St. Moritz was chosen as the founding location is that three of the most influential works of classical liberalism of the last century (F.A. Hayek’s The Constitution of Liberty; M. Friedman’s Capitalism and Freedom and B. Leoni’s Freedom and the Law) are the result of lectures and discussions that Hayek, Friedman and Leoni, among others, had in 1957 in St. Moritz during a series of meetings organized by the Mont Pelerin Society (Kemp, A., introducing Leoni, B., 1991, Freedom and the Law (Liberty Fund, Indianapolis), p. xiii). Catallaxy Institute is regulated by its Statute. |
