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The Adam Smith Institute is Britain’s leading innovator of free-market economic and social policies. It develops practical options to inject competition into public services, reduce tax and regulation, and extend personal freedom and initiative.

Non-party and non-profit, the Institute develops and spreads these ideas through its research, reports, events, media work, and its popular website and weblog. It works with MPs, journalists, businesspeople and academics, and with an eye to the future, it makes a point of encouraging younger talent through its annual schools conferences and Next Generation group.

The Adam Smith Institute is more than a think-tank – it is a do-tank. It changed events with its pioneering work on privatization, contracting-out, and internal markets. Now it is leading the debates on deregulation and thoroughgoing public service reform. It highlights the need for tax simplification and reduction through its annual Tax Freedom Day calculation.

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