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