Publications
Through its publications, the Liberal Institute makes freely available analyses, studies and ideas on various topics. (Most Institute publications are in the French and the German languages.)
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Edition Liberales Institut
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Economic freedom
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Private autonomy
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Political diversity
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Liberal culture
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Economic Freedom in the World Index
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Property Rights Index
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June 2018
The Anti-Market-Agenda of International Organizations
LI-PAPER. There is no evidence to suggest that higher government spending led to better development.
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October 2016
Ways to leaner and smarter regulation
BRIEFING. Legislative overreach threatens economic and entrepreneurial freedom, consumer choice, and innovation.
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October 2016
The war against cash in Europe
Cash is not an end in itself, but rather the indispensable means to exercise basic rights and enabling a lifestyle that does not harm others.
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April 2013
Die Gefahren des grünen Protektionismus
LI-STUDIE. Zahlreiche Massnahmen — vom Klimaschutz bis zum Glühbirnenverbot — verzerren und behindern den internationalen Handel.
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November 2010
Klimaprognosen: Im Angesicht der grossen Gefahr
LI-PAPER. Das Zusammenspannen aller gesellschaftlichen Kräfte nach Art einer Kriegswirtschaft wirkt nur kontraproduktiv.
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September 2010
Index für wirtschaftliche Freiheit 2010
Erstmals seit 1980 verzeichnet der Index weltweit einen Rückgang wirtschaftlicher Freiheit. Es besteht ein klarer Zusammenhang von wirtschaftlicher Freiheit und Abbau der Arbeitslosigkeit.
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August 2010
«Grüne» Jobs - teuer für Arbeitnehmer, Steuerzahler und die Umwelt
Eine aktuelle Studie zeigt auf, dass staatliche Programme zur Förderung «grüner Arbeitsplätze» weltweit bereits 430 Milliarden Franken Steuergelder verschlingen. Diese Aufgaben drohen netto zu einem Arbeitsplatzverlust zu führen.
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October 2009
Superhighway to Serfdom
LI-PAPER. It should by now be apparent that there is nothing whatsoever benign about increasing the size of the State.
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September 2009
Index für wirtschaftliche Freiheit 2009
Rezessionen bedrohen die wirtschaftliche Freiheit. Die Schweiz behält ihre Spitzenposition in Europa.
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December 2008
A Forced Spend or a Spent Force?
LI-PAPER. As the sense of crisis deepens, the authorities are beginning to abandon all restraint in their urge to stimulate what they call ‘spending'.
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December 2008
The Threat of Tax Centralization Hovers Over Europe
Tax centralization poses a serious challenge to freedom and prosperity in Europe and goes against the continent's historical success.
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September 2008
Index für wirtschaftliche Freiheit 2008
Der Jahresbericht 2008 des Index für wirtschaftliche Freiheit zeigt einen klaren Zusammenhang von wirtschaftlicher Freiheit, ökonomischer Entwicklung und der Bekämpfung von Armut und Umweltverschmutzung. Schweiz weist erneut gute Werte auf.
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August 2008
The Vanity of the Bonfires
Earlier this month, the local press carried a summary of a report compiled by a panel of so-called ‘experts' of the Swiss Academy of Engineering Science (SATW) under the startling rubric that motor gasoline “should” henceforth be priced, by fiat, at no less than CHF 4 per litre — roughly double the current market price.
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June 2008
Tax Competition: The Swiss Case
PAPER. Tax competition in Switzerland provides taxpayers with more choice and better protection of their property rights.
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June 2008
Does the principle of majority rule represent a threat to liberty?
LI-PAPER. For a defence of the principle of majority rule we need look no further than the oath sworn at Rütli by the founding fathers of the Swiss Confederation.
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Februar 2008
Protectionism harms consumers and the environment
The competitive market process, underpinned by free trade between and within nations, is inherently more sustainable than the regulated economy advocated by eco-doom mongers.
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Dezember 2007
Adaptation, not emission cuts
If the negotiators on the resort island of Bali are seriously concerned about avoiding dangerous climate change in a cost-effective manner, they should be looking primarily at adaptation, not at trying to cut emissions.
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Dezember 2007
Civil Society Report on Climate Change
The Civil Society Report on Climate Change shows that Kyoto 2 is the wrong solution. Such a treaty would harm billions of poor people: it would make energy and energy-dependent technologies, such as clean water, more expensive, and would perpetuate poverty.
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January 2007
Unarmed bandits
Extracting rents from the general population by gaining the ear of the state is to the detriment of the large mass of consumers/taxpayers.
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2006
Capitalism and Religion
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2005
Is Switzerland Losing its Precious Heritage of Decentralization in the Name of Efficiency?
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2005
Federalism as a Protection against the Unintended Consequences of Legislation
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2005
Protection of Minorities by “Competition of Systems”
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2004
In Praise of Non-Centralism
LI-PAPER. Centralism offers a great temptation, and the half-life of its disintegration lasts long.
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2003
Liberalism, Loose or Strict
There is a built-in mechanism in democracy for the state to buy support from some by abusing the rule of submission and exploiting others.
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2003
Liberty
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2003
Liberalism as a Reaction Against the State
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October 2002
The “more-or-less-free-traders”
The EU has been founded to promote free trade, but in fact it has turned to a bureaucratic, interventionist and egalitarian organisation governed by technocrats and soft-socialists.
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October 2002
The Swiss Three-Pillar Principle: Dismantle, Extend, Reform?
LI-PAPER. The so called “Swiss Three Pillar Principle” can be seen as an illustrative case for the debate on pension reforms, but not as a shining example.
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Oktober 1998
Socialism, Envy and Redistribution
The socialists, however, take it as their call to build a troop of followers out of the existing resentment which of necessity is present in a pluralistic unconstrained society.