About Eamonn Butler
Dr Eamonn Butler is director of the Adam Smith Institute, an influential think-tank which for more than twenty years has designed and promoted practical policies to promote choice and competition in the delivery of essential services.
Independent and non-partisan, the Institute was at the intellectual leading edge of the UK debate on privatization, including the sale of state enterprises, the commercialization of government agencies, contracting-out of local services, and the introduction of internal markets in health and education.
Dr Butler’s work on social and economic issues have taken him all over the world as a lecturer and consultant.
Having graduated from the University of St Andrews in the 1970s, Dr Butler worked on pensions and welfare issues for the US House of Representatives in Washington DC. Returning to the UK, he served as editor of The British Insurance Broker monthly before devoting himself full-time to the Adam Smith Institute, which he helped found.
Dr Butler has degrees in philosophy, economics and psychology, and is author of academic books on the work of three of the 20th century’s leading economists, as well as co-author of a number of books on intelligence and IQ testing. His last book, before The Best Book on the Market, was Adam Smith: A Primer.
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