Eamonn Butler is Director and co-founder of the Adam Smith Institute think tank, and an author and broadcaster on economic and social issues.[1]
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Dr Butler graduated from the University of St Andrews in the 1970s; he has degrees in philosophy, economics and psychology. He worked on pensions and welfare issues for the United States House of Representatives in Washington DC, before returning to the UK where he served as editor of the British Insurance Broker monthly before devoting himself full-time to the Adam Smith Institute, which he helped found in 1977.
Dr Butler and his colleague Dr Madsen Pirie received the 2010 National Free Enterprise Award,[2] and he is one of Total Politics magazine’s Top 50 Political Influencers in the UK, ranking Number 30 on their list.[3]
He has also won the Freedom Medal of the Freedoms Foundation at Valley Forge in the USA, and is Vice-President of the Mont Pelerin Society,[4] an international body of economists.
Dr Butler is author of academic books on the work of three of this century's leading economists: Hayek: His Contribution to the Economic and Political Thought of Our Time; Milton Friedman: A Guide to his Economic Thought; Ludwig von Mises: A Primer; Ludwig von Mises: Fountainhead of the Modern Microeconomics Revolution.
He has written several books on current economic topics, including: The Best Book on the Market; The Rotten State of Britain; The Alternative Manifesto ; and (with Robert Schuettinger), Forty Centuries of Wage and Price Controls.
Dr Butler is also co-author of a number of books on intelligence and IQ testing.
He has contributed extensively to national magazines and newspapers on subjects ranging from health policy, economic management, taxation and public spending, transport, pensions, and e-government.
Dr Butler has edited or contributed to Adam Smith Institute reports on many policy subjects, such as transport (Private Road Ahead, Roads and the Private Sector, and A Decade of Bus Deregulation), health (The Health of Nations, The Health Alternatives, Health Management Units, Good Health: The Role of HMOs, and Scottish Health Markets), long-term care (Quest for Care, The Future of Long-Term Care, and Extending Care), pensions and welfare (The Future of Pensions, The Fortune Account, The End of the Welfare State, Singapore versus Chile and The Great Escape).