# Eamonn Butler

**URL:** <https://www.libertarianism.org/people/eamonn-butler>

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Eamonn Butler is director of the Adam Smith Institute, a leading think tank in the UK. He holds degrees in economics and psychology, a PhD in philosophy, and an honorary DLitt. A former winner of the Freedom Medal of Freedom’s Foundation at Valley Forge and the UK National Free Enterprise Award, Eamonn is currently Secretary of the Mont Pelerin Society. Butler is the author of many books, including introductions on the pioneering economists Adam Smith, Milton Friedman, F. A. Hayek, and Ludwig von Mises. He has also published primers on Classical Liberalism, Public Choice, Magna Carta, the Austrian School of Economics, and great liberal thinkers, as well as _The Condensed Wealth of Nations_ and _The Best Book on the Market_. His _Foundations of a Free Society_ won the 2014 Fisher Prize.