Think tank timeline


 * 1916: Institute for Government Research founded by Robert Brookings
 * 1918: New School for Social Research founded
 * 1920: National Bureau of Economic Research founded by Wesley Clair Mitchell
 * 1922: Institute of Economics founded by Robert Brookings
 * 1924: Robert Brookings Graduate School founded
 * 1923: F. A. Hayek visits the USA for the first time
 * 1927: Brookings Institution formed from merging of IGR, IoE, and Brookings Graduate School
 * 1927: Hayek becomes founder-director of Austrian Institute for Business Cycle Research in Vienna
 * 1929: start of Great Depression
 * 1931: Hayek moves to London
 * 1932: William Volker Fund founded
 * 1935: Tax Foundation founded by businessmen including Lewis H. Brown
 * 1938: Lippmann Colloquium held in Paris with Hayek and von Mises in attendance
 * 1938: Hayek founds the short-lived Society for the Renovation of Liberalism, a prototype for the Mont Pelerin Society
 * 1942: Harold Luhnow takes control of the William Volker Fund
 * 1943: American Enterprise Institute founded by Lewis H. Brown
 * 1944: Condensed version of The Road to Serfdom by Hayek published in Reader's Digest
 * 1945: Antony Fisher and Harold Luhnow first meet Hayek
 * 1946: Foundation for Economic Education founded by Leonard Read with William Volker Fund money
 * 1947: Mont Pelerin Society founded by Hayek; Americans attend with aid of William Volker Fund
 * 1952: Antony Fisher visits Foundation for Economic Education
 * 1955: Institute of Economic Affairs established by Antony Fisher
 * 1961: Institute for Humane Studies founded by F. A. Harper
 * 1963: Hudson Institute founded
 * 1968: Reason Magazine started as a student publication
 * 1972: George Mason University separates from University of Virginia
 * 1973: University of Buckingham founded, conceived at Institute of Economic Affairs
 * 1973: Heritage Foundation founded with Joseph Coors and Richard Mellon Scaife money
 * 1974: Hayek wins nobel award
 * 1974: Centre for Policy Studies founded
 * 1975: Antony Fisher joins the new Fraser Institute as co-director
 * 1977: Cato Institute founded with Koch Industries money
 * 1977: Adam Smith Institute founded with help of Antony Fisher
 * 1978: Reason Foundation founded
 * 1979: Margaret Thatcher becomes Prime Minister of the UK
 * 1979: Pacific Research Institute founded with help of Antony Fisher
 * 1980: Social Affairs Unit founded (IEA/Fisher)
 * 1981: Atlas Economic Research Foundation established by Antony Fisher
 * 1981: Council for National Policy founded
 * 1983: National Center for Policy Analysis founded with help of Antony Fisher
 * 1983: Herman Kahn of the Hudson Institute dies; the Institue takes a new, markedly neo-liberal direction and expands
 * 1984: Competitive Enterprise Institute founded
 * 1984: Heartland Institute founded (Koch?)
 * 1984: Citizens for a Sound Economy founded (Koch)
 * 1984: George C. Marshall Institute founded
 * 1985: Institute for Humane Studies and George Mason University join forces
 * 1988: Alexis de Tocqueville Institution founded (Koch?)
 * 1990: Acton Institute founded
 * 1993: Centre for the New Europe founded
 * 1994: New Citizenship Project founded
 * 1997: Project for the New American Century founded
 * 1997: Reason Public Policy Institute founded
 * 1998: Lexington Institute founded
 * 2001: International Policy Network founded
 * 2005: Globalization Institute founded