Top Free-Market Think Tanks Ranked

President and CEO of Atlas Economic Research Foundation Alejandro Chafuen has ranked the top free-market think tanks for 2014 using how many mentions they had in the just-released University of Pennsylvania think tank rankings.  Here are the results:

1. Heritage Foundation: (21 mentions)
2. Cato: 20
3. Fraser Institute: 18
4. American Enterprise Institute (AEI): 16
5. Libertad y Desarrollo: 13
6. CIDAC: 11
7. IMANI: 10
8. CEDICE; Atlas Network: 9
9. Adam Smith Institute; Unirule: 8
10. Hoover Institution: 7

Even though Heritage had more mentions than Cato (by 1), Cato is considered a higher ranked think tank in the US (#8) compared to Heritage Foundation (#9).

Mr. Chafuen writes extensively about free-market think tanks, and if Dr. James McGann (who runs UPenn's think tank program) is "Mr. Think Tank," Mr. Chafuen is "Mr. Free-Market Think Tank."