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American Enterprise Institute

Summary

The American Enterprise Institute (AEI), founded in 1938, is one of the United States' leading conservative and free-market think tanks. Based in Washington D.C., it produces research on economics, governance, social policy, and foreign policy from a broadly centre-right perspective. AEI scholars have included Arthur Brooks, Lynne Cheney, Charles Murray, and Christina Hoff Sommers.

Core Contribution

Institutionalizing free-market and social conservative policy research; providing intellectual infrastructure for the Republican Party and the neoconservative foreign policy tradition; producing accessible public scholarship bridging academia and policy.

Key Spikes & Highlights

  • free-market economics
  • social conservatism
  • neoconservative foreign policy
  • welfare reform
  • education policy

Historical Influences

Milton Friedman Friedrich Hayek neoconservative foreign policy tradition

Intellectual Lineage

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Allied Works

The Bell Curve by Charles Murray and Richard HerrnsteinLosing Ground by Charles MurrayThe War Against Boys by Christina Hoff SommersThe Conservative Heart by Arthur Brooks

Contemporaries & Peers

Brookings Institution Heritage Foundation Cato Institute Hudson Institute

Minds Influenced

Republican Party policyneoconservatism welfare reform debatesAmerican constitutional scholarship

Intellectual Posterity

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