Source: Foundation for Economic Education
by Douglas Carswell
“‘What is a think tank?’ is a question I get asked all the time. The job of a think tank is to generate the ideas that politicians implement in office. If politics were the movie industry, those we elect would be the stars on the big screen; think tanks help write the script. ‘But don’t politicians have ideas of their own?’ I hear you ask. Of course they do (though having spent 12 years in the House of Commons before running a think tank, I’d suggest they have them less often than you might imagine). Even with a clear goal—cutting taxes, improving childcare, encouraging growth—elected leaders often need help with the details of how to make it happen. Free-market think tanks have been enormously influential.” (08/03/26)