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The Yipeedog Institute or just "The Institute", are short names for The Yipeedog Institute for Klassical Economic Studies (Y.I.K.E.S). The Institute is a think tank parody established by blogger and University of Arizona economics major Taylor Davidson. The purpose of the Institute is to aggregate educational materials from across a wide spectrum of libertarian and free market think tanks and organizations. Resources currently included on the Institute's website come from groups such as the Foundation for Economic Education, Reason Magazine, LearnLiberty.org, The Cato Institute, the Library of Economics and Liberty, and others. These organizations normally focus on production and dissemination of their own original content, the Institute's website serves to provide a single location where users can find content from across the entire spectrum of freedom focused groups. Additionally, the Institute produces its own original content in the form of articles, blogging and a news feed. Columns and posts are made by Mr. Davidson as well as a group of other writers recruited from the fields of economics, education and others.

Columns
Regular content currently includes columns such as the "The Long View" and "200 Words". From the Institute website :


 * "The Long View" takes its lead from Bastiat's classic essay, "That Which is Seen, And That Which Is Not Seen" discussing and exploring the long term, unintended consequences of political and economic policy.
 * "200 Words" is dedicated to presenting important ideas in a condensed format. The goal is to take a challenging position and prove / defend that thesis in 200 words or less (the most common length of a "Letter to the Editor").  The Institute accepts unsolicited submissions for inclusion in the 200 Words column.

Taylor Davidson
Mr. Davidson is the creator and publisher of Yipeedog.com. He is a small business owner and long time writer and blogger, who has been regularly featured by Southern Arizona news outlets such as Tucson Choices and The Tucson Citizen. His opinion pieces have also appeared in The Arizona Daily Star and other Arizona daily newspapers.

Dr. Yip E. Dog
The eponymous "Yipeedog", is a creation of Mr. Davidson. He is a fictional "anarchy-capitalist chihuahua" who is said to have founded the Institute in the 1940's. Dr. Dog is used as a vehicle for developing the "think tank" mythology.

Rankings
Mr. Davidson and The Yipeedog Institute are currently ranked in the top 100 free market and liberty focused, social networkers and websites by www.TopLibertarian.com. The Institute is also follwed by a number of political and economic news aggregation services such as PennAvePost.com.