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| − | No single person was more important in encouraging the spread of think tanks than Sir Antony Fisher. A Royal Air Force pilot in World War II and successful businessman, Fisher sought advice from Nobel Laureate Friedrich Hayek on how to stop the spread of collectivism and to encourage a resurgence of classical liberal ideas. "Don't go into politics, Focus instead on the world of ideas" is what Hayek told him. <ref>Frost, G.(2002) | + | No single person was more important in encouraging the spread of think tanks than Sir Antony Fisher. A Royal Air Force pilot in World War II and successful businessman, Fisher sought advice from Nobel Laureate Friedrich Hayek on how to stop the spread of collectivism and to encourage a resurgence of classical liberal ideas. "Don't go into politics, Focus instead on the world of ideas" is what Hayek told him. <ref>Frost, G.(2002) "[http://books.google.co.uk/books?id=XqDUGwAACAAJ&dq=champion+of+liberty+antony+fisher&hl=en&ei=tMfiTMaJA9GLhQeag8GRDQ&sa=X&oi=book_result&ct=result&resnum=1&ved=0CC8Q6AEwAA Antony Fisher: Champion of Liberty]" Profile Books, London</ref> |
==History== | ==History== | ||
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No single person was more important in encouraging the spread of think tanks than Sir Antony Fisher. A Royal Air Force pilot in World War II and successful businessman, Fisher sought advice from Nobel Laureate Friedrich Hayek on how to stop the spread of collectivism and to encourage a resurgence of classical liberal ideas. "Don't go into politics, Focus instead on the world of ideas" is what Hayek told him. [1]
History
Early Life
To understand what Fisher contributed, no matter how intentional, to the general advancement of globalisation it is important to go back to what gave him the desire to make a change in day to day society. It began when he found a condensed version of Friedrich Hayek's The Road to Serfdom in an edition of Reader's Digest in 1945[2]. It was only having read the work and agreeing strongly enough with his words that Fisher decided to pursue the matter by meeting Hayek himself at his office in the London School of Economics. It was at this meeting where a key conversation took place in which he asked Hayek what could be done to resist the collectivism which apparently threatened the end of economic, and therefore political, freedom. in this meeting{..............} [3].
Later Life
Legacy
Fisher supplied money which started and maintained an annual think tank conference. By the time of his death, he had helped start more than 3 dozen think tanks[4]
Notes
- ↑ Frost, G.(2002) "Antony Fisher: Champion of Liberty" Profile Books, London
- ↑ John Blundell, "Hayek, Fisher and The Road to Serfdom in Friedrich A. Hayek, The Road to Serfdom: the condensed version of the Road to Serfdom by F.A. Hayek as it appeared in the April 1945 edition of Readers Digest, Institute of Economic Affairs, 1999
- ↑ John Blundell, "No Antony Fisher, no IEA: ‘The Case for Freedom’ after 50 years"
- ↑ Nicole Hopkin and Ron Robinson, “Funding Father: the unsung heroes of the conservative movement”
