This document offers highlights of the recent and upcoming work of the American Enterprise Institute. Founded in 1943, AEI is one of the nation's oldest and most respected think tanks. The Institute is dedicated to the principles of expanding liberty, increasing individual opportunity, and strengthening free enterprise, and pursues these unchanging ideas through independent thinking, open debate, reasoned argument, and the highest standards of fact-based research. AEI's sixty scholars and fellows and more than fifty affiliated policy experts include some of America's foremost economists, legal analysts, political scientists, and foreign policy experts. They examine the full range of U.S. domestic and foreign policies, with special emphasis on economic policy, government regulation, international security, and social welfare issues.
AEI scholars testify on Capitol Hill and publish op-eds in the nation's leading newspapers more often than those of any other think tank. AEI scholars appear on televised public affairs programs and speak regularly at academic, business, and professional gatherings. The Institute also sponsors hundreds of conferences, seminars, and lectures each year, including the Bradley Lecture Series, the annual Irving Kristol Lecture, and our popular Election Watch series. Most of AEI's public events can be viewed on our website, www.aei.org.
AEI's regular publications include books; monographs; e-newsletters; and eighteen different periodical reports as part of our Outlook series, on topics such as economics, financial services, health policy, tax and retirement policy, education, liability issues, development policy, national security, Asia, Russia, and the Middle East. These publications are distributed to government officials, business executives, journalists, academics, donors, and subscribers.
The following pages describe AEI's research agenda and is current as of November 2009. For more detail on our accomplishments, please see the Annual Report.
Research Highlights
