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Announcing 2011 Bastiat Prize Winners & Hoiles Prize Winners

Mon, 07 Nov 2011 19:14:25 +0000

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IPN

For ten years, IPN has awarded the Basitat Prize for Journalism. This year's winners include Tom Easton (The Economist) and Virginia Postrel (Bloomberg columnist) - each received $25,000 and a crystal candlestick.

The R.C. Hoiles Prize was introduced this year with the generous support of his granddaughter, Pamela Hoiles. Damon Root won $10,000 for articles published in Reason Magazine.

For further details of finalists and winners, and their winning articles:

Bastiat Prize Press Release

Hoiles Prize Press Release

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Tenth Bastiat Prize, New Deadline August 15

Tue, 26 Jul 2011 12:26:47 +0000

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IPN

The deadline for the Tenth Bastiat Prize has been extended to August 15, 2011. Entrants to the Bastiat Prize may also enter the Hoiles Prize, with a top prize of $10,000.

Tenth Bastiat Prize rules: http://www.policynetwork.net/2011-bastiat-prize-rules

Hoiles Prize rules: http://www.policynetwork.net/2011-hoiles-prize

Online entry form for both prizes: http://www.policynetwork.net/2011-bastiat-hoiles-entry-form

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Writers - Please Enter Bastiat & Hoiles Prizes

Mon, 18 Jul 2011 14:01:09 +0000

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IPN

A change to the competition rules now enables writers to enter both the Bastiat Prize and Hoiles Prize this year.

Writers who have already submitted their entries to one prize are invited to submit an entry for the other prize.

Also, the entry deadline for the Hoiles Prize has been extended to August 15, 2011. The background and criteria for this prize are available here: http://www.policynetwork.net/2011-hoiles-prize

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New Journalism Prize - the R.C. Hoiles Prize

Mon, 20 Jun 2011 14:38:37 +0000

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IPN

International Policy Network is pleased to announce the first annual R.C. Hoiles Prize. The deadline for submissions has been extended to August 15, 2011.

The $15,000 prize recognizes journalists addressing policy issues whose writing best reflects the Freedom Philosophy developed by R. C. Hoiles. Read on for more information and competition rules.

Entries must be submitted through an online entry form: http://www.policynetwork.net/2011-bastiat-hoiles-entry-form

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Tenth Bastiat Prize: $70,000 for journalists who support the free society

Mon, 20 Jun 2011 13:48:20 +0000

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IPN

In celebration of its tenth anniversary, the Bastiat Prize for Journalism this year will have a total prize fund of $70,000, with a First prize of $50,000, Second prize of $15,000 and Third prize of $5,000.

International Policy Network (IPN) is now accepting submissions for its Tenth Bastiat Prize for Journalism. The Prize is open to writers anywhere in the world whose published articles eloquently and wittily explain, promote and defend the principles and institutions of the free society.

Submissions must be received on or before August 15, 2011. All submissions must be made through the online entry form.

Please note that this year IPN has established a new Hoiles Prize for Regional Journalism and will not be running a separate online prize. Authors of blogs and other online articles are encouraged to enter either the Bastiat Prize or the Hoiles Prize.

More Information:

Rules: http://www.policynetwork.net/2011-bastiat-prize-rules

Online entry form: http://www.policynetwork.net/2011-bastiat-hoiles-entry-form

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Stephens, Delingpole win 2010 Bastiat Prizes

Fri, 12 Nov 2010 14:11:42 +0000

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Kendra Okonski

Last night at an awards dinner in New York City, Julian Morris announced the winners of the 2010 Bastiat Prize and the 2010 Bastiat Prize for Online Journalism. The ten finalists' articles are available in an online PDF.

Bastiat Prize

First Place - Bret Stephens, Wall Street Journal

Second Place (tie) - Tim Harford, Financial Times, and Jamie Whyte, freelance

Bastiat Prize for Online Journalism

Winner - James Delingpole, blogger for telegraph.co.uk

James Delingpole writes:

Why does the Bastiat Prize matter so much? Because it’s about the only prize left which celebrates those true journalistic virtues of scepticism and inquiry which our libtard MSM [mainstream media] has all but abandoned in its eagerness to suck up to whichever bunch of statist shysters currently happen to be in power. It’s about free markets, about small government, about liberty.

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IPN Announces 2010 Bastiat Prize Finalists

Mon, 11 Oct 2010 14:37:02 +0000

Blog Author:

Timothy Cox

International Policy Network is pleased to announce the finalists in its ninth Bastiat Prize for Journalism. The competition includes one prize awarded for print journalism ($15,000 total prize money), and one prize awarded for online journalism ($3,000 prize money). Winners and runners-up will be announced in early November.

Seven finalists for the print journalism prize are:

* Andrew Ferguson, Weekly Standard

* Peter Foster, National Post, Canada (2009 finalist)

* Tim Harford, Financial Times (2006 co-winner)

* Jeff Jacoby, Boston Globe

* Bret Stephens, Wall Street Journal

* Jamie Whyte, freelance (for articles written in The Times and Wall Street Journal; (2006 co-winner)

* Martin Wolf, Financial Times

Three finalists for the online prize are:

* James Delingpole, blogger for telegraph.co.uk

* Philip Maymin, columnist, fairfieldweekly.com and lewrockwell.com

* Mark Perry, Carpe Diem blog / American Enterprise Institute / University of Michigan

The Bastiat Prize was first awarded in 2002 and judges have included Lady Thatcher and Nobel-Prize-winners James Buchanan and Milton Friedman. The winner of the Bastiat Prize will receive US$10,000, and the winner of the Bastiat Prize for Online Journalism will receive US$3,000. They will also receive an engraved crystal candlestick - a reference to an essay by Frederic Bastiat entitled “A Petition”.

A list of judges is available on IPN’s website: http://www.policynetwork.net/bastiat-prize-judges

For more information, contact Kendra Okonski:

bastiatprize |AT| policynetwork.net

+4420 3393 8410 (UK), +1 202 379 1906 (US).

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For anti-colonial rhetoric in Zimbabwe read xenophobia and economic illiteracy

Thu, 23 Sep 2010 17:47:05 +0000

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Stuart Bramwell

It appears that Robert Mugabe is not the only politician in Zimbabwe who is willing to use ‘anti-colonialist’ rhetoric to justify their ruinous policies. Saviour Kasukuwere - who holds the somewhat Orwellian post of “Indigenization Minister”- has justified Zanu PF’s latest efforts to control foreign owned business ventures as part of a “struggle for freedom”. The perception that foreign owners are in some way “plundering” wealth at the expense Zimbabwean people is economically illiterate and only serves the interests of those politicians that stand to gain as a result of forced nationalisation.

In reality, as amply demonstrated by Zimbabwe’s state-owned diamond industry, government control of the private sector has led to whole scale plunder of assets. This latest push to deter foreign investment will almost certainly exacerbate this predicament by getting rid of productive sectors. As Roger Bate has recently noted in the Wall Street Journal, it was precisely such policies that led to Zimbabwe’s initial economic collapse.

Furthermore, the policy of expropriating capital from foreign owned businesses bears more resemblance to racist xenophobic idealism than it does to sound economic planning. Elsewhere in Africa, such as in Botswana, Rwanda and Mauritius, enormous benefits have ensued from foreign investment and expertise creating jobs, providing services and ultimately contributing to fiscal revenues. Any government that is truly concerned about the material progress and economic welfare of its citizens should be looking to welcome investors with open arms.

Sadly, in the case of Zimbabwe, politicians remain eager to further their own ends by evoking populist anti-colonial rhetoric. It is time that the world acknowledged that such vocabulary is used to justify policies that should be viewed by the international community with contempt for the harm they will cause to their people.

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Bob Geldof is right: investment, rather than aid, is the way forward

Fri, 03 Sep 2010 13:10:24 +0000

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Alec van Gelder

Let business and the private sector do for Africa and Africans what a half-century of aid and government ineptitude could not.

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