Instituto Liberdade

The Instituto Liberdade do Rio Grande do Sul (IL-RS) is a Brazilian private non-profit organization think tank; it is non-partisan, not subordinated to any national or international organization, and it is supported by private contributions of individuals and institutions. Instituto Liberdade´s major purpose is to foster the research,creation and dissemination of educational and cultural assets displaying the advantages to all individuals of an organized society, based on the principles of individual rights, of limited and representative government, of respect to private property rights, contracts and to the free initiative. It supports multi-disciplinary theorists and intellectual entrepreneurs who endeavor to produce analyses or policy recommendations. It supports the rule of the law, the government decentralization, the free market economy, the cultural freedom according to the principles of the Austrian School of Economics.