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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Economic freedom
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Private autonomy
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Political diversity
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Liberal culture
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Edition Liberales Institut
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Economic Freedom in the World Index
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Property Rights Index
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Ways to leaner and smarter regulation
October 2016
BRIEFING. Legislative overreach threatens economic and entrepreneurial freedom, consumer choice, and innovation.
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The war against cash in Europe
October 2016
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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Die Gefahren des grünen Protektionismus
April 2013
LI-STUDIE. Zahlreiche Massnahmen — vom Klimaschutz bis zum Glühbirnenverbot — verzerren und behindern den internationalen Handel.
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Klimaprognosen: Im Angesicht der grossen Gefahr
November 2010
LI-PAPER. Das Zusammenspannen aller gesellschaftlichen Kräfte nach Art einer Kriegswirtschaft wirkt nur kontraproduktiv.
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Index für wirtschaftliche Freiheit 2010
September 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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«Grüne» Jobs - teuer für Arbeitnehmer, Steuerzahler und die Umwelt
August 2010
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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Superhighway to Serfdom
October 2009
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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Index für wirtschaftliche Freiheit 2009
September 2009
Rezessionen bedrohen die wirtschaftliche Freiheit. Die Schweiz behält ihre Spitzenposition in Europa.
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A Forced Spend or a Spent Force?
December 2008
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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The Threat of Tax Centralization Hovers Over Europe
December 2008
Tax centralization poses a serious challenge to freedom and prosperity in Europe and goes against the continent's historical success.
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Index für wirtschaftliche Freiheit 2008
September 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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The Vanity of the Bonfires
August 2008
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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Tax Competition: The Swiss Case
June 2008
PAPER. Tax competition in Switzerland provides taxpayers with more choice and better protection of their property rights.
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Does the principle of majority rule represent a threat to liberty?
June 2008
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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Protectionism harms consumers and the environment
Februar 2008
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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Adaptation, not emission cuts
Dezember 2007
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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Civil Society Report on Climate Change
Dezember 2007
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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Unarmed bandits
January 2007
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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Capitalism and Religion
2006
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Is Switzerland Losing its Precious Heritage of Decentralization in the Name of Efficiency?
2005
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Federalism as a Protection against the Unintended Consequences of Legislation
2005
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Protection of Minorities by “Competition of Systems”
2005
Ten propositions on the protection of minorities
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In Praise of Non-Centralism
2004
LI-PAPER. Centralism offers a great temptation, and the half-life of its disintegration lasts long.
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Liberalism, Loose or Strict
2003
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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Liberty
2003
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Liberalism as a Reaction Against the State
2003
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The “more-or-less-free-traders”
October 2002
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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The Swiss Three-Pillar Principle: Dismantle, Extend, Reform?
October 2002
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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Socialism, Envy and Redistribution
Oktober 1998
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.