Founded in 1943, AEI is one of the nation’s oldest and most respected think tanks. Dedicated to the principles of limited government and private enterprise, the Institute works to strengthen the foundations of freedom and civil society through scholarly research, open debate, and publications. AEI’s sixty scholars and fellows and more than one hundred 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.
The Wall Street Journal, the New York Times, and the Washington Post publish more op-eds by AEI scholars than by scholars from all of the other D.C.-based think tanks combined. AEI scholars appear on televised public affairs programs; testify frequently before Congress; 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 seventeen 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 detail AEI’s upcoming research agenda and is current as of January 2009. For more detail on our accomplishments, please see the Annual Report.
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