Why IEA?

Some wounders why I choose to go to IEA. After a story like the one below, I just had to check it out.

IEAs founder is Antony Fisher, his name is not familiar but his achivment is great.
He was a successful entrepreneur, a fighter pilot in World War II and read the road to serfdom. After that he met up with Hayek and started a chicken factory-farm and made a fortune in the process. The money was spent on buildning up the IEA.

Fisher knew the importence with the liberty of the individual, and after a meeting with Friedrich Hayek, he changed his life. Fisher funded the establishment of The Institute of Economic Affairs, an independent economic think tank.

The start of the IEA in nine words by John Blundell (Waging the War on Ideas, IEA 2001):
 

Hayek advises Fisher; Fisher recruits Harris; Harris meets Seldon.

IEA has had an enormous influence on public policy and the views of leading politicians, among them Margaret Thatcher.

Conservative MP Oliver Letwin wrote in The Times in 1994:
 

Without Fisher, no IEA; without the IEA and its clones, no Thatcher and quite possibly no Reagan; without Reagan, no Star Wars; without Star Wars, no economic collapse of the Soviet Union. Quite a chain of consequences for a chicken farmer.

The IEA's goal is to explain free-market ideas to the public, including politicians, students, journalists, businessmen, academics and anyone interested in public policy.