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Duncan Madsen Pirie OBE (born 24 August 1940) is a British researcher and author. He is a co-founder and current President of the Adam Smith Institute, a UK neoliberal think tank which has been in operation since 1977.
Dr Madsen Pirie is President of the Adam Smith Institute, and was one of three Scots graduates working in the US who founded the Institute in 1977. Before that, Madsen worked for the House of Representatives in Washington DC, and was Distinguished Visiting Professor Philosophy at Hillsdale College in Michigan.
Apr 5, 2017 · In The Neoliberal Mind, Dr Madsen Pirie makes the first serious, monograph-length attempt to describe what a 'neoliberal' really is – as a description of temperament and political beliefs, not as a political slur.
My name is Madsen Pirie. I am President of the Adam Smith Institute, the free market think tank which researches policy proposals that work towards a free economy and a free society. I was one of its founders.
The Adam Smith Institute is one of the world's leading think tanks, recognised as the best domestic and international economic policy think-tank in the UK and ranked 2nd in the world among Independent Think Tanks by the University of Pennsylvania.
About Madsen Pirie: Born in Hull, Pirie is the son of Douglas Pirie and Eva Madsen. As a child, he attended the Humberstone Foundation School in Old Clee...
Mar 12, 2015 · In the second edition of this witty and infectious book, Madsen Pirie builds upon his guide to using - and indeed abusing - logic in order to win arguments.
Madsen Pirie has 59 books on Goodreads with 7875 ratings. Madsen Pirie’s most popular book is How to Win Every Argument: The Use and Abuse of Logic.
My classes included History of Western Philosophy, Representative Thinkers of Modern Europe, The Great Codes of Law, Philosophy of History, and The British Empiricists. The most popular class was my Introduction to Logic, and the most popular element of it was the section on logical fallacies.
Although Madsen Pirie was the architect of much of the privatisation policy, he had no emotional ties to Thatcher, nor did the ASI propose policies on a range of social issues despite its Thatcherite reputation.
