The Founder and President of PAFERE among the members of Mont Pelerin Society
With particular pride and joy we would like to announce, that the founder and director of our Foundation has been nominated for membership in the Mont Pelerin Society (MPS) by two members of this honorable circle of the worldwide economic freedom champions. Subsequently, the MPS Board of Directors in Tokyo, on September 12, 2008, (during the general meeting of Mont Pelerin Society members, which took place between 6th and 12th September 2008), decided to welcome him as a member of MPS.. After being informed by MPS, Mr. Jan Małek has said: It is, for me, a great honor and distinction, particularly that the members of MPS are world-renowned economists, while the Polish members of this prestigious Association number only a few people. I am convinced that this message will contribute to the growth of social interest of the aims and activities of the Polish-American Foundation for Economic Research and Education PAFERE, which has been bound with me.In the year 1947, when many of the values of Western civilization were imperiled, 36 scholars, mostly economists, with some historians and philosophers, were invited by Professor Friedrich von Hayek to meet at Mont Pelerin, near Montreux, Switzerland, to discuss the state and the possible fate of liberalism (in its classical sense) in thinking and practice.
The group described itself as the Mont Pelerin Society, after the place of the first meeting, although the first project was to name the society after Acton and Tocqueville. It emphasized that it did not intend to create an orthodoxy, to form or align itself with any political party or parties, or to conduct propaganda. Its sole objective was to facilitate an exchange of ideas between like-minded scholars in the hope of strengthening the principles and practice of a free society and to study the workings, virtues, and defects of market-oriented economic systems. Members who include(d) high government officials, Nobel prize recipients like Friedrich von Hayek, Gary S. Becker, James M. Buchanan, and Milton Friedman, served as MPS Presidents, journalists, economic and financial experts, and legal scholars. They come from all over the world regularly to present the most current analysis of ideas, trends and events. Among the past presidents were also the well known Prof. Ropke, and Prof. Leonard Liggio. The post is now being held by Gregory John Lindsay. More info at
www.montpelerin.org and http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mont_Pelerin_Society
We also recommend an interesting article in "The Freeman", on the occasion of the 50th anniversary of the Society:
http://fee.org/publications/the-freeman/article.asp?aid=4877
We extend our heartfelt congratulations to our dear Mr. Malek for this distinction and, at the same time, we wish him more successes in his defense of freedom, property and common sense.
PAFERE-Polska team:
Paweł Toboła-Pertkiewicz
Paweł Sztąberek
Konrad Rajca
Jacek Matulewicz
Piotr Toboła-Pertkiewicz
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