Libertarians saw their rhetoric adopted by Ronald Reagan in the 1980s, and many of them took positions of power in his administration. Former Ayn Rand disciple Alan Greenspan was appointed Chairman of the Federal Reserve Board. Waves of privatization, lower taxes, and lower inflation improved economies around the world. The fall of international Communism has provided vivid examples of the contrast between libertarianism and big government, encouraging a new wave of growth in the movement. The Cato Institute is now one of the most respected think-tanks in the world and nowhere is libertarianism more prevalent than here on the Internet.
Today there are hundreds of thousands of libertarians around the world.
There are thousands of libertarian and pro-freedom organizations . Some libertarians focus on local issues while others are involved on a national or international scale. Some libertarians are political, others strictly philosophical. Some are radical, some conservative. Some are scholars, others are simply active, thinking individuals.