Kim Crockett, President and General Counsel as of February 1st, 2010

Emily Nesse, Office Manager

We are looking for a new Policy Fellow and a new Webmaster. And we are always interested in Guest Posts.  If you are interested, please contact Kim Crockett via email    kimc@mnfreemarketinstitute.org 

The Minnesota Free Market Institute taps the resources of Policy Fellows with scholarly credentials and practical experience in a wide variety of pursuits from economics to corporate management, legal studies to litigation, and grassroots activism to government policymaking. Our Policy Fellows are scholars, lawyers, journalists, teachers, business executives and technologists. The Free Market Institute integrates the theoretical knowledge and practical experience of its Policy Fellows through projects that bridge the divides among theory, research and policy.

Who can be a Minnesota Free Market Institute Fellow?

“WE hold these Truths to be self-evident…”

Among the nations of the world the United States is unique in that to call oneself “American,” one need not be of a specific race or ethnicity. Bloodline makes a Frenchman a Frenchman, an Englishman an Englishman, a Chinaman a Chinaman, but an “American” is defined by belief in the existence of self-evident truths… “That all Men are created equal, that they are endowed by their Creator with certain unalienable Rights, that among these are Life, Liberty, and the Pursuit of Happiness – That to secure these Rights, Governments are instituted among Men, deriving their just powers from the Consent of the Governed…”

The Founders did not require of man or woman that they pursue happiness in any specific manner, observe any particular religion or even hold any specific moral values. They only decreed that one acknowledge the “self-evident” truth of the essential equality of all human beings and that governmental power flowed from the people to the government. The Minnesota Free Market Institute aspires to no other standard.

Beyond unwavering faith in the self-evident truths expressed by the founders, a sincere desire to limit government to its proper role and trust that free market approaches to issues of the day inevitably produce more and wider spread prosperity than the collective, centrally planned economies, there is no ideological litmus test for Minnesota Free Market Institute Fellows. Fellows are chosen for their knowledge, experience and ability to integrate research and practical experience into a free market approach to policymaking. Disagreement and debate on policy among Fellows is welcomed and encouraged.