ATHENIAN Policy Forum Inc

Description

The Athenian Policy Forum is a non-profit scholarly organization which promotes conferences and other scholarly activities on the broad themes of economic integration, globalization and structural change.

Two main principles have guided the discussion all along.

Firstly, from the start there has been an emphasis on the concerns of relatively smaller national players caught up in the globalization process. Hence, the emphasis on "asymmetries" and "unequal development".

Secondly, there has been a serious commitment to an open debate, reflecting as many different shades of political and economic opinion as possible.

Inspired by the ancient Greek and Athenian tradition of thoroughly and properly debating important issues in public with clarity, and without obfuscation, the Athenian Policy Forum is aspiring to meet that standard.

In pursuing its objectives internationally, the Athenian Policy Forum promotes conferences, commissioned studies, symposia, invited presentations, occasional papers and its own journal, The Journal of Economic Asymmetries.

The Athenian Policy Forum was founded in 1989 and was awarded tax-exempt status in 1995 as a registered charity (No. 1040427-21) under the income tax act.