http://thinktank-watch.blogspot.se/1988/12/mission-statement.html

http://thinktank-watch.blogspot.se/2007/12/sir-anthony-fisher.html

http://thinktank-watch.blogspot.se/2007/12/mont-pelerin-society.html

http://www.sourcewatch.org/index.php?title=Think_tank_timeline

1916: Institute for Government Research founded by Robert Brookings
1918: New School for Social Research founded
1920: National Bureau of Economic Research founded by Wesley Clair Mitchell
1922: Institute of Economics founded by Robert Brookings
1924: Robert Brookings Graduate School founded
1923: F. A. Hayek visits the USA for the first time
1927: Brookings Institution formed from merging of IGR, IoE, and Brookings Graduate School
1927: Hayek becomes founder-director of Austrian Institute for Business Cycle Research in Vienna
1929: start of Great Depression
1931: Hayek moves to London
1932: William Volker Fund founded
1935: Tax Foundation founded by businessmen including Lewis H. Brown
1938: Lippmann Colloquium held in Paris with Hayek and von Mises in attendance
1938: Hayek founds the short-lived Society for the Renovation of Liberalism, a prototype for the Mont Pelerin Society
1942: Harold Luhnow takes control of the William Volker Fund
1943: American Enterprise Institute founded by Lewis H. Brown
1944: Condensed version of The Road to Serfdom by Hayek published in Reader's Digest
1945: Antony Fisher and Harold Luhnow first meet Hayek
1946: Foundation for Economic Education founded by Leonard Read with William Volker Fund money
1947: Mont Pelerin Society founded by Hayek; Americans attend with aid of William Volker Fund
1952: Antony Fisher visits Foundation for Economic Education
1955: Institute of Economic Affairs established by Antony Fisher
1961: Institute for Humane Studies founded by F. A. Harper
1963: Hudson Institute founded
1968: Reason Magazine started as a student publication
1972: George Mason University separates from University of Virginia
1973: University of Buckingham founded, conceived at Institute of Economic Affairs
1973: Heritage Foundation founded with Joseph Coors and Richard Mellon Scaife money
1974: Hayek wins nobel award
1974: Centre for Policy Studies founded
1975: Antony Fisher joins the new Fraser Institute as co-director
1977: Cato Institute founded with Koch Industries money
1977: Adam Smith Institute founded with help of Antony Fisher
1978: Reason Foundation founded
1979: Margaret Thatcher becomes Prime Minister of the UK
1979: Pacific Research Institute founded with help of Antony Fisher
1980: Social Affairs Unit founded (IEA/Fisher)
1981: Atlas Economic Research Foundation established by Antony Fisher
1981: Council for National Policy founded
1983: National Center for Policy Analysis founded with help of Antony Fisher
1983: Herman Kahn of the Hudson Institute dies; the Institue takes a new, markedly neo-liberal direction and expands
1984: Competitive Enterprise Institute founded
1984: Heartland Institute founded (Koch?)
1984: Citizens for a Sound Economy founded (Koch)
1984: George C. Marshall Institute founded
1985: Institute for Humane Studies and George Mason University join forces
1988: Alexis de Tocqueville Institution founded (Koch?)
1990: Acton Institute founded
1993: Centre for the New Europe founded
1994: New Citizenship Project founded
1997: Project for the New American Century founded
1997: Reason Public Policy Institute founded
1998: Lexington Institute founded
2001: International Policy Network founded
2005: Globalization Institute founded