Aims

FREE MARKET CENTER (FMC) is first free market think-tank in Serbia. It is a non-profit, tax exempt center (NGO) dedicated to researching and broadening ideas related to free market economy. Its program is consistent with classical principles of individual liberty, free market economy, limited government and peaceful cooperation. To that end, the FMC strives to achieve greater involvement not only of leading liberal authors but also of the intelligent, concerned lay public, entrepreneurs, policy makers and students in questions of market policy and the proper role of government.

No aspect of life is free today from government encroachment. A pervasive intolerance for individual liberties and rights is shown by governments arbitrary intrusions into private economic transactions and its disregard for civil liberties. It is a part of broader trend toward active and enlarged state, with impact on all countries, including those in transition.

To counter that trend the Free Market Center:

• collects, translates, edits, publishes and discusses articles, collections and books on free market economy and liberal thought;
• popularizes the ideas of liberal authors and disseminates a range o publications to a specific or to a wide audience;
• undertakes specialized studies on the market economy;
• organizes national and international debates, conferences, seminars, courses and summer schools aimed at implementing specific insights;
• enhances business knowledge and strengthens the entrepreneurial culture of the private sector;
• produces policy recommendations;
• promotes the legal and institutional structures necessary to establish and maintain open, free market oriented economy;
• lobbies in conjunction with like-minded individuals and institutions (shareholders) for legal and policy changes in favor of free market economy under the rule of law.

The current goal of the FMC is to become an integral partner in broad strategic alliances for ongoing substantive change of Serbia into a free market democracy under the rule of law.