Since AEI’s founding 75 years ago, its scholars, adjuncts, and members of the Institute’s Council of Academic Advisers have published many influential books. Below are 75 of them, chosen by a group of current scholars to represent the depth, breadth, and policy impact of AEI’s work. Click on each book for a full description.
Books by scholars in residence
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The Almanac of
American Politics 2012
Michael Barone
Resident Fellow
Common Sense School
Reform
Frederick M. Hess
Resident Scholar
Choosing Victory:
A Plan for Success
in Iraq
Frederick W. Kagan
Resident Scholar
Free Trade, Sovereignty,
Democracy: The Future of
the World Trade Organization
Claude Barfield
Resident Scholar
Human Cloning and
Human Dignity:
The Report of the
President's Council
on Bioethics
Leon Kass
Madden-Jewett Chair
Kings of the Hill
Richard B. Cheney and
Lynne V. Cheney
Senior Fellow
Losing Ground:
American Social Policy,
1950–1980
Charles Murray
W.H. Brady Scholar
Nationalizing Mortgage
Risk: The Growth of Fannie Mae
and Freddie Mac
Peter J. Wallison, Arthur F. Burns Fellow,
and Bert Ely
Natural Gas Regulation:
An Evaluation of FPC
Price Controls
Robert B. Helms
Resident Scholar
Of Men and Materiel:
The Crisis in Military
Resources
Thomas Donnelly, Resident Fellow
and Gary Schmitt, Resident Scholar
Progressive Consumption
Taxation: The X-Tax
Revisited
Alan D. Viard, Resident Scholar,
and Robert Carroll
The Rise of China:
Essays on the
Future Competition
Gary Schmitt, ed.
Resident Scholar
Surrender Is Not an
Option: Defending America
at the United Nations
and Abroad
John Bolton
Senior Fellow
Toward Fundamental
Tax Reform
Kevin A. Hassett, John G. Searle
Senior Fellow,
and Alan J. Auerbach, eds.
The Tyranny of Numbers:
Mismeasurement and
Misrule
Nicholas Eberstadt
Henry Wendt Scholar in
Political Economy
Vital Statistics on
Congress
Norman Ornstein, Resident Scholar,
Thomas E. Mann, and
Michael Malbin
We the People:
The Story of Our
Constitution
Lynne V. Cheney
Senior Fellow
Who Really Cares:
The Surprising Truth
About Compassionate
Conservatism
Arthur C. Brooks
President
Who Stole Feminism?
How Women Have
Betrayed Women
Christina Hoff Sommers
Resident Scholar
Yeltsin: A Revolutionary
Life
Leon Aron
Resident Scholar
Economics and health care policy
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Against the Tide:
An Intellectual History
of Free Trade
Douglas A. Irwin
Agricultural Policy
Reform in the
United States
Daniel A. Sumner, ed.
The Antitrust Paradox:
A Policy at War with
Itself
Robert H. Bork
Contemporary Economic
Problems
William Fellner, editor
Currency Convertibility
Gottfried Haberler
Economics in One
Lesson
Henry Hazlitt
Fear of Persuasion:
A New Perspective on
Advertising and Regulation
John E. Calfee
Federal Budgeting:
The Choice of Government
Programs
Murray L. Weidenbaum
The Fiscal Revolution
in America
Herbert Stein
Free Trade, Sovereignty,
Democracy: The Future of
the World Trade Organization
Claude Barfield
Resident Scholar
Growth of Government
in the West
G. Warren Nutter
Healthy, Wealthy, and
Wise: Five Steps to a
Better Health Care
System
R. Glenn Hubbard, John F. Cogan,
and Daniel P. Kessler
A History of the
Federal Reserve
Allan H. Meltzer
Measuring Business
Cycles
Arthur Burns and Wesley C.
Mitchell
Nationalizing Mortgage
Risk: The Growth of Fannie
Mae and Freddie Mac
Peter J. Wallison, Arthur F. Burns Fellow,
and Bert Ely
Natural Gas Regulation:
An Evaluation of FPC
Price Controls
Robert B. Helms
Resident Scholar
Poverty: Definition and
Perspective
Rose Director Friedman
Progressive Consumption
Taxation: The X-Tax
Revisited
Alan D. Viard, Resident Scholar,
and Robert Carroll
Public Debt in a
Democratic Society
James Buchanan and
Richard E. Wagner
Regulation and Drug
Development
William M. Wardell
and Louis Lasagna
Regulation of Pharmaceutical
Innovation: The 1962
Amendments
Samuel Peltzman
Responsible National
Health Insurance
Mark Pauly, Patricia Danzon,
Paul J. Feldstein, and
John Hoff
The Spirit of Democratic
Capitalism
Michael Novak
Toward Fundamental
Tax Reform
Kevin Hassett, John G. Searle
Senior Fellow,
and Alan Auerbach, eds.
Two Cheers for
Capitalism
Irving Kristol
The Tyranny of Numbers:
Mismeasurement and
Misrule
Nicholas Eberstadt
Henry Wendt Scholar in
Political Economy
United States Aid
and Indian Economic
Development
Peter T. Bauer
The Way the World
Works
Jude Wanniski
Foreign & defense policy
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Choosing Victory:
A Plan for Success
in Iraq
Frederick W. Kagan
Resident Scholar
The Clash of Civilizations
Samuel Huntington
A Culture of Its Own:
Taking Latin America
Seriously
Mark Falcoff
Dictatorships and Double
Standards: Rationalism
and Reason in Politics
Jeane J. Kirkpatrick
Free Trade, Sovereignty,
Democracy: The Future
of the World Trade
Organization
Claude Barfield
Resident Scholar
Heaven on Earth: The
Rise and Fall of
Socialism
Joshua Muravchik
Infidel
Ayaan Hirsi Ali
Of Men and Materiel:
The Crisis in Military
Resources
Thomas Donnelly, Resident Fellow
and Gary Schmitt, Resident Scholar
The Powers of War
and Peace: The
Constitution and
Foreign Affairs After 9/11
John Yoo
The Rise of China:
Essays on the
Future Competition
Gary J. Schmitt, ed.
Resident Scholar
Surrender Is Not an
Option
John Bolton
Senior Fellow
United States Aid
and Indian Economic
Development
Peter T. Bauer
Why Sovereignty Matters
Jeremy Rabkin
Yeltsin: A Revolutionary
Life
Leon Aron
Resident Scholar
Politics & public opinion
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Here the People Rule
Edward C. Banfield
After the People Vote:
Steps in Choosing the
President
Walter Berns, Norman J. Ornstein,
Martin Diamond, Akhil Amar,
Vikram Amar; John C. Fortier, ed.
The Age of Reagan: The
Conservative Counterrevolution,
1980–1989
Steven F. Hayward
The Almanac of
American Politics 2012
Michael Barone
Resident Fellow
American Politics, Then
and Now and Other
Essays
James Q. Wilson
America's Continuing
Revolution
Stephen Tonsor, ed.
As Far as Republican
Principles Will Admit
Martin Diamond
Australia at the Polls:
The National Elections
of 1975
Howard Penniman
Campaign Financing
and Political Freedom
Ralph K. Winter
The Divided Academy:
Professors and Politics
Everett Carll Ladd and
Seymour Martin Lipset
To Empower People:
The Role of Mediating
Structures in Public Policy
Peter Berger and
Richard John Neuhaus
The Forgotten Man:
A New History of
the Great Depression
Amity Shlaes
From Parchment to Power:
How James Madison Used
the Bill of Rights to Save
the Constitution
Robert Goldwin
Growth of Government
in the West
G. Warren Nutter
Here the People Rule
Edward C. Banfield
Kings of the Hill
Richard B. Cheney and
Lynne V. Cheney
Senior Fellow
Losing Ground:
American Social Policy,
1950–1980
Charles Murray
W.H. Brady Scholar
Modern Times: The
World from the Twenties
to the Eighties
Paul Johnson
The New American
Political System
Anthony King, ed.
Public Debt in a
Democratic Society
James Buchanan and
Richard E. Wagner
The Quest for Community:
A Study in the Ethics
of Order and Freedom
Robert Nisbet
The Real Majority
Ben J. Wattenberg and
Richard M. Scammon
Scandal: The Culture
of Mistrust in American
Politics
Suzanne Garment
The Spirit of Democratic
Capitalism
Michael Novak
Toward a More Perfect
Union: Writings of
Herbert J. Storing
Joseph M. Bessette, ed.
Two Cheers for
Capitalism
Irving Kristol
The Tyranny of Numbers:
Mismeasurement and
Misrule
Nicholas Eberstadt
Henry Wendt Scholar in
Political Economy
The Upside-Down
Constitution
Michael S. Greve
Vital Statistics on
Congress
Norman J. Ornstein, Resident Scholar,
Thomas E. Mann, and
Michael J. Malbin
Voting Rights and Wrongs:
The Elusive Quest for
Racially Fair Elections
Abigail Thernstrom
Who Really Cares:
The Surprising Truth
About Compassionate
Conservatism
Arthur C. Brooks
President
Society & culture
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The Age of Reagan: The
Fall of the Old Liberal
Order, 1964–1980
Steven Hayward
American Politics, Then
and Now and Other
Essays
James Q. Wilson
America's Continuing
Revolution
Stephen Tonsor, ed.
As Far as Republican
Principles Will Admit
Martin Diamond
Character and Cops:
Ethics in Policing
Edwin J. Delattre
The Clash of Civilizations
Samuel Huntington
A Culture of Its Own:
Taking Latin America
Seriously
Mark Falcoff
To Empower People
Peter Berger and
Richard John Neuhaus
The Forgotten Man:
A New History of
the Great Depression
Amity Shlaes
From Parchment to Power:
How James Madison Used
the Bill of Rights to Save
the Constitution
Robert Goldwin
Heaven on Earth: The
Rise and Fall of
Socialism
Joshua Muravchik
Here the People Rule
Edward C. Banfield
How to Think Seriously
About the Planet:
The Case for an
Environmental
Conservatism
Roger Scruton
Human Cloning and
Human Dignity:
The Report of the
President's Council
on Bioethics
Leon R. Kass
Madden-Jewett Chair
Infidel
Ayaan Hirsi Ali
Labor Unions and
Public Policy
Roscoe Pound
Losing Ground:
American Social Policy,
1950–1980
Charles Murray
W.H. Brady Scholar
Modern Times: The
World from the Twenties
to the Eighties
Paul Johnson
The Moral Imagination:
From Edmund Burke
to Lionel Trilling
Gertrude Himmelfarb
Poverty: Definition and
Perspective
Rose Director Friedman
The Quest for Community:
A Study in the Ethics
of Order and Freedom
Robert Nisbet
Religion and the
American Future
Christopher DeMuth
and Yuval Levin, eds.
Scandal
Suzanne Garment
The Spirit of Democratic
Capitalism
Michael Novak
Toward a More Perfect
Union: Writings of
Herbert J. Storing
Joseph Bessette, ed.
Two Cheers for
Capitalism
Irving Kristol
The Tyranny of Numbers:
Mismeasurement and
Misrule
Nicholas Eberstadt
Henry Wendt Scholar in
Political Economy
The Upside-Down
Constitution
Michael Greve
The Way the World
Works
Jude Wanniski
We the People:
The Story of Our
Constitution
Lynne V. Cheney
Senior Fellow
Who Really Cares:
The Surprising Truth
About Compassionate
Conservatism
Arthur C. Brooks
President
Who Stole Feminism?
How Women Have
Betrayed Women
Christina Hoff Sommers
Resident Scholar
Why Sovereignty Matters
Jeremy Rabkin
Other AEI research areas: Education, energy, and environment
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Common Sense School
Reform
Frederick M. Hess
Resident Scholar
Going Broke by Degree:
Why College Costs
Too Much
Richard K. Vedder
How to Think Seriously
About the Planet:
The Case for an
Environmental
Conservatism
Roger Scruton
Natural Gas Regulation:
An Evaluation of FPC
Price Controls
Robert B. Helms
Resident Scholar
