Defunct Newspapers Journals TV channels Websites Other Congressional caucuses Economics Gun rights Identity politics Nativist Religion Watchdog groups Youth/student groups Miscellaneous Other The Pacific Research Institute for Public Policy (PRI) is a California-based free-market think tank which promotes "the principles of individual freedom and personal responsibility" through policies that emphasize a free economy, private initiative, and limited government.

[3] PRI was founded in 1979 by British philanthropist Antony Fisher and a San Francisco businessman James North.

PRI started the Center for Medicine in the Public Interest, a New York-based think tank focusing on health policy.

[10] PRI is a member of the advisory board of Project 2025,[11] a collection of conservative and right-wing policy proposals from the Heritage Foundation to reshape the United States federal government and consolidate executive power should the Republican nominee win the 2024 presidential election.

[10] The current chairman of the board of trustees Clark S. Judge (since 2005) is also a cofounder of the White House Writers Group.