American Enterprise Institute (AEI)
Background
The American Enterprise Institute (AEI), or American Enterprise Institute for Public Policy Research, is one of the richest and most influential think tanks in the U.S. having received significant funding from conservative foundations and large corporations. AEI's areas of concern include foreign and domestic policy which includes the issue of global warming. [1]
The American Enterprise Institute (AEI) describes itself as a “private, nonpartisan, not-for-profit institution dedicated to research and education on issues of government, politics, economics and social welfare,” with their primary research divisions being Economics, Foreign and Defense Policy, Politics and Public Opinion, Education, Health, Energy and the Environment and Society and Culture. They are a “community of scholars and supporters committed to expanding liberty, increasing individual opportunity and strengthening free enterprise.” [2]
While AEI states that “As a tax-exempt educational organization governed by Section 501(c)(3) of the Internal Revenue Code, AEI is generally prohibited from attempting to influence legislation in the U.S. Congress or other legislative bodies,” they also state that individual scholars and fellows “frequently do take positions on policy and other issues, including explicit advocacy for or against legislation currently being considered by the Congress.” However, AEI asserts that when they do, “they speak for themselves and not for AEI or its trustees or other scholars or employees.” [2]
Greenpeace's ExxonSecrets described AEI as an avid opponent of the Kyoto protocol, as well as most other environmental regulations. AEI climate science skeptics have included James K. Glassman, also of ExxonMobil-funded Tech Central Station. ExxonMobil CEO Lee Raymond is a previous member of AEI's board of trustees. [1], [3]
American Enterprise Institute-Brookings Joint Center for Regulatory Studies
In 1998, AEI and the Brookings Institution established this joint venture with the purpose of studying federal regulatory policy. The Center would be directed by Robert Hahn of AEI and Robert Litan of the Brookings Institution. The Joint Center is no longer in operation, according to the Internet Archive of their website (as of 2009). [33]
The Joint Center distributed the following three key pamphlets related to their views on government regulation: [34]
- An Agenda for Regulatory Reform by Robert W. Crandall et al.,
- Benefit-Cost Analysis in Environmental, Health, and Safety Regulation by Kenneth J. Arrow et al., and
- Improving Regulatory Accountability by Robert W. Hahn and Robert E. Litan.
According to an AEI newsletter, the Joint Center was created “In response to growing concerns about the effects of regulation on consumers, businesses, and government. […] Federal regulation—especially environmental, health, and safety regulation—has grown dramatically in recent decades, whether considered absolutely or as a relative share of the U.S. economy. [31]
Greenpeace's ExxonSecrets project reports that the Joint Center has received at least $105,000 from ExxonMobil since 1998. [32]
Stance on Climate Change
July 21, 2015
According to Mark J. Perry, resident scholar at the American Enterprise Institute, “Hydraulic fracking causes environmental damage, greater use of shale gas will exacerbate climate change, and the natural gas carried by the pipelines is not intended for American consumers but rather will go to export markets. Each of these three claims is completely baseless.” [7]
February 5, 2014
The American Enterprise Institute's head of energy studies, Benjamin Zycher, has suggested there is doubt about man-made climate change: [5]
“The issue of the climate sensitivity of the atmosphere to increasing GHG concentrations is nowhere near resolution.”
“[T]ornado, hurricane, and cyclone activity are at historically low levels, wildfires are in a long-term decline except in government forests, there is no trend in sea-levels related to increases in GHG concentrations, the record of the Arctic ice cover is ambiguous, there is no drought trend since 1895, and the same is true for flooding over the last 85-127 years.”
Leading economist Jeffrey Sachs discusses Zycher's claims in an article in the Huffington Post, titled “How the AEI Distorts the Climate Debate,” where he challenges the AEI “to come clean.” Sachs wrote:
The AEI, despite its roster of distinguished academics, has failed to be constructive in the climate debate. It's time that the AEI puts forward a strategy to achieve the globally agreed objective of avoiding dangerous anthropogenic interference with the climate system. [6]
September 2001
Christopher DeMuth, writing at “Energy Crunch,” an AEI publication, declared that “The Kyoto Treaty Deserved to Die”: [4]
“The key features of the climate change debate are large degrees of uncertainty and a long time horizon. Although it is fairly well-established that the Earth's atmosphere has warmed somewhat (one degree Fahrenheit) during the past century, it's not clear why this happened. The warming may have been due to human impositions (the burning of fossil fuels and other incidents of industrial growth), or to natural solar or climate variations, or to some of each. Whatever the causes, we don't know if future warming trends will be large or small, or whether the net environmental and economic consequences (including both beneficial and harmful effects) may be large or small.” [4]
Funding
The AEI was sixth on a list of organizations that received the highest climate skeptic funding between 2011 and 2013, reaching $5.7 million in total, The Guardian reports in their article titled “Secretive donors gave US climate denial groups $125m over three years” that examines money flows from DonorsTrust and Donors Capital Fund. [9]
Below is a summary of data compiled from the Conservative Transparency database for “The American Enterprise Institute for Public Policy Research”: [8]
See the attached spreadsheet for additional information on American Enterprise Institute funding by year (.xlsx).
AEI as Donor
| Recipient | Total |
| Foundation for Defense of Democracies | $943,167 |
| University System of Maryland | $183,124 |
| Grand Total | $1,126,291 |
AEI as Recipient
| Donor | Total |
| Kovner Foundation | $27,050,000 |
| Donors Capital Fund | $26,132,548 |
| The Lynde and Harry Bradley Foundation | $21,705,297 |
| Searle Freedom Trust | $15,294,000 |
| Sarah Scaife Foundation | $11,611,000 |
| Smith Richardson Foundation | $11,056,676 |
| Hertog Foundation | $8,937,500 |
| John M. Olin Foundation | $8,007,124 |
| Brady Education Foundation | $5,005,000 |
| Exxon Mobil | $4,480,000 |
| Diana Davis Spencer Foundation | $3,500,000 |
| CIGNA Foundation | $3,080,000 |
| John Templeton Foundation | $2,167,650 |
| Charles G. Koch Charitable Foundation | $2,163,756 |
| Dick and Betsy DeVos Family Foundation | $1,514,000 |
| Walton Family Foundation | $1,440,338 |
| DonorsTrust | $1,376,550 |
| Earhart Foundation | $1,268,800 |
| Adolph Coors Foundation | $1,225,000 |
| Paul E. Singer Foundation | $1,212,000 |
| DeVos Urban Leadership Initiative | $1,095,000 |
| The Randolph Foundation | $954,500 |
| PhRMA | $900,000 |
| The Carthage Foundation | $900,000 |
| Marcus Foundation | $900,000 |
| Richard and Helen Devos Foundation | $900,000 |
| Claude R. Lambe Charitable Foundation | $750,000 |
| Castle Rock Foundation | $690,000 |
| TWS Foundation | $674,000 |
| Bradley Impact Fund | $617,500 |
| Ravenel and Elizabeth Curry Foundation | $597,000 |
| Scaife Family Foundation | $590,000 |
| Peter G. Peterson Foundation | $550,000 |
| F.M. Kirby Foundation | $539,000 |
| Lovett and Ruth Peters Foundation | $470,000 |
| Schwab Charitable Fund | $443,020 |
| Dunn's Foundation for the Advancement of Right Thinking | $438,400 |
| William E. Simon Foundation | $437,500 |
| William H. Donner Foundation | $414,500 |
| George Edward Durell Foundation | $290,000 |
| Jaquelin Hume Foundation | $250,000 |
| JM Foundation | $240,000 |
| Dodge Jones Foundation | $202,500 |
| Philip M. McKenna Foundation | $197,000 |
| Stuart Family Foundation | $168,500 |
| Newton D. & Rochelle F. Becker Foundation | $155,000 |
| Thomas W Smith Foundation | $150,000 |
| National Christian Charitable Foundation | $147,500 |
| Charles Maxfield Parrish and Gloria F Parrish Foundation | $130,000 |
| American Petroleum Institute | $110,000 |
| Ed Uihlein Family Foundation | $100,000 |
| Armstrong Foundation | $95,000 |
| Barney Family Foundation | $80,000 |
| Pierre F and Enid Goodrich Foundation | $60,000 |
| Legett Foundation | $57,500 |
| John William Pope Foundation | $50,500 |
| Comerica Charitable Foundation | $45,000 |
| Kickapoo Springs Foundation | $42,500 |
| Pew Charitable Trust | $30,000 |
| Lowndes Foundation | $30,000 |
| Albert & Ethel Herzstein Charitable Foundation | $26,500 |
| Stiles Nicholson Foundation | $25,000 |
| Joyce and Donald Rumsfeld Foundation | $25,000 |
| The Vernon K. Krieble Foundation | $22,500 |
| The Robertson-Finley Foundation | $20,000 |
| Intel Corporation | $15,000 |
| Apex Foundation | $15,000 |
| Kulakala Point Foundation | $10,000 |
| Barbara and Barre Seid Foundation | $10,000 |
| Arthur N. Rupe Foundation | $10,000 |
| Cato Institute | $10,000 |
| Eric Javits Family Foundation | $8,500 |
| Wodecroft Foundation | $8,000 |
| Charles Koch Institute | $7,365 |
| True Foundation | $7,000 |
| Einhorn Family Foundation | $4,500 |
| Robert W. Wilson Charitable Trust | $4,000 |
| Aequus Institute | $4,000 |
| Charles & Ann Johnson Foundation | $3,000 |
| National Association of Manufacturers | $1,500 |
| Grand Total | $173,955,524 |
ExxonMobil Funding
According to ExxonSecrets, AEI received $3,615,000 from ExxonMobil since 1998. [1]
Koch Funding
According to data collected by Greenpeace USA, the American Enterprise Institute has received $2,171,121 in combined donations from Koch-related foundations between 2004 and 2017 (that does not include $750,000 to the Brookings Joint Center for Regulatory studies): [39]
| Donor | ||||
| Charles G. Koch Charitable Foundation | Claude R. Lambe Charitable Foundation | Charles Koch Institute | Grand Total | |
| American Enterprise Institute for Public Policy Research | $2,163,756 | $7,365 | $2,171,121 | |
| 2004 | $50,000 | $50,000 | ||
| 2006 | $100,000 | $100,000 | ||
| 2011 | $200,000 | $200,000 | ||
| 2012 | $517,289 | $517,289 | ||
| 2013 | $910,000 | $910,000 | ||
| 2014 | $30,710 | $7,365 | $38,075 | |
| 2016 | $15,000 | $15,000 | ||
| 2015 | $23,257 | $23,257 | ||
| 2017 | $317,500 | $317,500 | ||
| Brookings Joint Center for Regulatory Studies | $750,000 | $750,000 | ||
| 2005 | $400,000 | $400,000 | ||
| 2006 | $100,000 | $100,000 | ||
| 2007 | $250,000 | $250,000 | ||
| Grand Total | $2,163,756 | $750,000 | $7,365 | $2,921,121 |
990 Forms
Key People
Officers
| Name | 2012[18] | 2017 | Description |
| Arthur C. Brooks | Y | Y | President and Beth and Ravenel Curry Chair in Free Enterprise, American Enterprise Institute |
| Danielle Pletka | Y | Y | Senior Vice President, Foreign and Defense Policy Studies |
| David Gerson | Y | Y | Executive Vice President |
| Henry Olsen | Y | Vice President, Director of the National Research Initiative | |
| Jason Bertsch | Y | Y | Senior Vice President, Development and Communications |
| Toby Stock | Y | Vice President, Development and Academic Programs |
Board of Trustees
AEI is governed by a Board of Trustees, composed of “leading business and financial executives”: AEI's past Board of Trustees has included representatives from major corporations, including Lee R. Raymond (the Chairman and CEO of Exxon Mobil Corporation) who once served as “chairman” at AEI. [15]
| Name | 2012[16] | 2015[10] | 2016 | 2017 | Description |
| Arthur C. Brooks | Y | Y | Y | Y | President and Beth and Ravenel Curry Chair in Free Enterprise, American Enterprise Institute |
| Bruce Kovner | Y | Y | Y | Y | Chairman, CAM Capital |
| Christopher B. Galvin | Y | Y | Y | Y | Chairman, CEO, and Co-Founder, Harrison Street Capital, LLC |
| Clifford S. Asness | Y | Y | Y | Managing and Founding Principal, AQR Capital Management | |
| D. Gideon Searle | Y | Y | Y | Y | Managing Partner, The Serafin Group, LLC |
| Daniel A. D'Aniello | Y | Y | Y | Y | Co-Chairman. Chairman and Co-Founder, The Carlyle Group |
| Edward B. Rust Jr. | Y | Y | Y | Y | Chairman, State Farm Insurance Companies |
| Elisabeth (Betsy) DeVos | Y | Y | Chairman, The Windquest Group | ||
| Frank J. Hanna | Y | Y | Y | Y | CEO, Hanna Capital, LLC |
| George L. Priest | Y | Yale Law School | |||
| Gordon M. Binder | Y | Y | Y | Y | Managing Director, Coastview Capital, LLC |
| Harlan Crow | Y | Y | Y | Y | Chairman and CEO, Crow Holdings |
| Harvey Golub | Y | Y | Y | Y | Retired Chairman and CEO, American Express Company, Chairman, Miller Buckfire |
| Henry Wendt | Y | Y | Y | Y | Emeritus Trustees |
| J. Peter Ricketts | Y | President and Director, Platte Institute for Economic Research, Inc. | |||
| James Q. Wilson | Y | Boston College and Pepperdine University | |||
| John A. Luke Jr. | Y | Y | Y | Y | Chairman, WestRock Company |
| John K. Hurley | Y | Y | Y | Founder and Managing Partner, Cavalry Asset Management | |
| John V. Faraci | Y | Y | Y | Y | Chairman and CEO, Retired, International Paper |
| Kevin B. Rollins | Y | Y | Y | Y | Retired CEO, Dell, Inc. |
| Marc S. Lipschultz | Y | Y | Y | Y | Co-Founder and President, Owl Rock Capital Partners |
| Marilyn Ware | Y | Y | Y | Chairman, Ret. American Water Works | |
| Matthew K. Rose | Y | Y | Y | Executive Chairman, BNSF Railway Company | |
| Mel Sembler | Y | Y | Y | Y | Founder and Chairman Emeritus, The Sembler Company |
| Paul F. Oreffice | Y | Y | Y | Y | Emeritus Trustees |
| Paul W. McCracken | Y | Emeritus Trustee | |||
| Peter H. Coors | Y | Y | Y | Vice Chairman of the Board, Molson Coors Brewing Company | |
| Ravenel B. Curry III | Y | Y | Y | Y | Chief Investment Officer, Eagle Capital Management, LLC |
| Raymond V. Gilmartin | Y | Y | Chairman and CEO, Retired, Merck & Co., Inc. | ||
| Richard B. Cheney | Y | Y | Y | Y | |
| Richard B. Madden | Y | Y | Emeritus Trustee | ||
| Robert F. Greenhill | Y | Y | Y | Y | Founder and Chairman, Greenhill & Co., Inc. |
| Robert H. Malott | Y | Y | Y | Emeritus Trustees | |
| Seth A. Klarman | Y | Y | Y | President and CEO, The Baupost Group, LLC | |
| Tully M. Friedman | Y | Y | Y | Y | Co-Chairman. Chairman and CEO, FFL Partners, LLC |
| Willard C. Butcher | Y | Emeritus Trustee | |||
| William H. Walton | Y | Y | Y | Y | Managing Member, Rockpoint Group, LLC |
| William L. Walton | Y | Rappahannock Ventures LLC | |||
| Wilson H. Taylor | Y | Y | Y | Y | Chairman Emeritus, Cigna Corporation |
Council of Academic Advisers
According to the AEI website, its Council of Academic Advisers is “chaired by Yale Law School Professor George L. Priest and including distinguished academics from a variety of policy-related fields, advises AEI’s president on the Institute’s research agenda, publications, and appointments, and each year selects the recipient of the Irving Kristol Award.” [11]
| Name | 2012[17] | 2015[11] | 2016 | Description |
| Aaron L. Friedberg | Y | Y | Y | Professor of Politics and International Affairs, Princeton University |
| Alan J. Auerbach | Y | Y | Y | Robert D. Burch Professor of Economics and Law, University of California, Berkeley |
| Eliot Cohen | Y | Y | Y | Robert E. Osgood Professor of Strategic Studies, Paul H. Nitze School of Advanced International Studies, Johns Hopkins University |
| Eric A. Hanushek | Y | Y | Paul and Jean Hanna Senior Fellow, Hoover Institution, Stanford University | |
| Eugene F. Fama | Y | Y | Y | Robert R. McCormick Distinguished Service Professor of Finance, Booth School of Business, University of Chicago |
| George L. Priest | Y | Y | Yale Law School | |
| Gertrude Himmelfarb | Y | Distinguished Professor of History Emeritus, City University of New York | ||
| Harvey S. Rosen | Y | Y | John L. Weinberg Professor of Economics and Business Policy, Princeton University | |
| James Q. Wilson | Y | Boston College and Pepperdine University | ||
| Jeremy A. Rabkin | Y | Y | Y | Professor of Law, George Mason University School of Law |
| John L. Palmer | Y | Y | Y | University Professor and Dean Emeritus, Maxwell School of Citizenship and Public Affairs, Syracuse University |
| Mark Pauly | Y | Y | Bendheim Professor, Professor of Health Care Management, The Wharton School, University of Pennsylvania | |
| Martin Feldstein | Y | Y | Y | George F. Baker Professor of Economics, Harvard University |
| R. Glenn Hubbard | Y | Y | Y | Visiting Scholar |
| Richard J. Zeckhauser | Y | Y | Y | Frank Plumpton Ramsey Professor of Political Economy, Kennedy School of Government, Harvard University |
| Robert P. George | Y | Y | Y | McCormick Professor of Jurisprudence; Director, James Madison Program in American Ideals and Institutions, Princeton University |
| Sam Peltzman | Y | Y | Y | Ralph and Dorothy Keller Distinguished Service Professor of Economics, Booth School of Business, University of Chicago |
| Walter Russell Mead | Y | Y | James Clarke Chace Professor of Foreign Affairs and the Humanities, Bard College |
National Council
According to AEI, “Members of AEI's National Council are business and community leaders from all over the country who are committed to the values and success of the Institute. They are ambassadors for AEI and provide us with advice, insight, and guidance as we look to reach out to new friends around the country.” [13]
| Name | 2012 | 2015[13] | 2016 | 2017 | Description |
| Al and Kathy Hubbard | Y | Y | Y | Y | |
| Alec Litowitz | Y | Y | |||
| Alex Navab | Y | Y | Y | ||
| Alex Slusky | Y | Chief Executive Officer, Vector Capital | |||
| Alexander Saint-Amand | Y | Chief Executive Officer, GLG | |||
| Allen and Kelli Questrom | Y | Y | Y | Y | |
| Amy Korenvaes | Y | Y | Y | President, Harlan and Amy Korenvaes Family Foundation | |
| Andy Puzder | Y | Y | |||
| Anne and Rob Raymond | Y | Y | Y | ||
| Anne L. Raymond | Y | Managing Director, Crow Holdings | |||
| Anthony J. de Nicola | Y | Y | Y | Co-President, Welsh, Carson, Anderson & Stowe | |
| Anthony Scaramucci | Y | Managing Partner, Skybridge Capital, LLC | |||
| Armeane and Mary Chokes | Y | ||||
| Armeane and Mary Choksi | Y | Y | |||
| Arturo Brillembourg and Hilda Ochoa-Brillembourg | Y | Y | Y | ||
| Barry L. MacLean | Y | Y | Y | President and Chief Executive Officer, MacLean-Fogg Company | |
| Barry S. Sternlicht | Y | Y | Y | Chairman and Chief Executive Officer, Starwood Capital Group | |
| Bayard Boyle, Jr. | Y | Y | Y | Y | Chairman, Boyle Investment Group |
| Bennie and Stephanie Bray | Y | Y | |||
| Bill Achtmeyer | Y | Y | Y | Chairman and Managing Partner, The Parthenon Group | |
| Bill and Linda Stavropoulos | Y | Y | Y | ||
| Bill Laverack | Y | Y | Y | Laverack Capital Partners | |
| Bob Lowe | Y | Y | Y | ||
| Bobby E. Jelks | Y | Y | President & Chief Executive Officer, Franks Management Company, LLC | ||
| Bud Watts | Y | Y | Y | ||
| C. Boyden Gray | Y | Y | Y | Y | Founding Partner, Boyden Gray & Associates |
| Carl Thoma | Y | Y | Y | Managing Partner, Thoma Bravo, LLC | |
| Carolyn and Preston Butcher | Y | ||||
| Charles M. Pigott | Y | ||||
| Christian A. Felipe | Y | Y | Y | ||
| Christina and Ronald Gidwitz | Y | ||||
| Christopher F. Egan | Y | Y | Y | ||
| Christopher Kojima | Y | ||||
| Clifford S. Asness | Y | Managing and Founding Principal, AQR Capital Management | |||
| Craig Overlander | Y | Y | Chief Executive Officer, Société Générale Americas | ||
| Curtis F. Bradbury, Jr. | Y | Y | Y | Y | Chief Operating Officer, Stephens |
| D. Scott Luttrell | Y | Y | Y | Chairman and Chief Executive Officer, LCM Group, Inc. | |
| Dan and Kellie Peters | Y | Y | Y | The Lovett & Ruth Peters Foundation | |
| Dan O'Keefe | Y | Y | Y | ||
| Dan Schultejann | Y | Y | Chief Executive Officer, Automation-X Corporation | ||
| Daniel N. Mezzalingua | Y | Y | Y | Y | Acquisitions Analyst FTO |
| Daniel S. Loeb | Y | Y | Y | Chief Executive Officer, Third Point LLC | |
| Daniel S. Peters | Y | President, The Lovett & Ruth Peters Foundation | |||
| David and Vickie Smick | Y | ||||
| David Coulter | Y | Y | Y | Vice Chairman, Warburg Pincus | |
| David G. Herro | Y | Y | Y | ||
| David H. Koch | Y | ||||
| David K. Reyes | Y | Y | |||
| David N. Roberts | Y | Y | Y | Y | Senior Managing Director, Angelo, Gordon & Co. |
| David Smick | Y | Chairman & CEO, Johnson Smick International, Inc. | |||
| Dick Uihlein | Y | Y | Y | CEO, Uline | |
| Donald and Allison Gulbrandsen | Y | Chief Executive Officer, Gulbrandsen Companies | |||
| Donald and Susan Sturm | Y | Y | Y | Sturm Financial Group | |
| Donald E. Scott | Y | Partner, Bartlit Beck Herman Palenchar & Scott LLP | |||
| Donald J. McNamara | Y | Chairman, Hampstead Holdings | |||
| Donald V. Fites | Y | Y | |||
| Douglas and Angela Braly | Y | Y | Y | The Braly Group, LLC | |
| Duane and Susan Ottenstroer | Y | Y | |||
| Ed and Helen Hintz | Y | Y | Y | Y | Hintz Capital Management |
| Edward C. Forst | Y | Y | Y | ||
| Elizabeth and Drayton McLane | Y | McLane Group | |||
| Eric Cantor | Y | Y | Y | Former House Majority Leader; Vice Chairman, Moelis & Company | |
| Erwin and Nancy Aulis | Y | Y | Y | ||
| F. Joseph Daugherty | Y | Y | Y | ||
| Gary Chartrand | Y | Executive Chairman, Acosta Inc. | |||
| Gary L. Wilson | Y | Y | General Partner, Manhattan Pacific Partners | ||
| Gene Sykes | Y | Y | Y | ||
| Geoffrey and Melissa Bradshaw-Mack | Y | Y | Y | ||
| Geoffrey S. Rehnert | Y | Y | Y | Co-Chief Executive Officer, Audax Group | |
| Glenn A. Youngkin | Y | ||||
| Greg Miller | Y | Y | Y | Larry H. & Gail Miller Family Foundation | |
| Gwendolyn van Paasschen | Y | Y | |||
| H. Lee S. Hobson | Y | Y | Highside Capital Management | ||
| Harlan B. Korenvaes | Y | Y | Y | Y | Korenvaes Capital Management |
| Harry Sloan | Y | Y | Chairman and Chief Executive Officer, Silver Eagle Acquisition Corporation | ||
| Harry T. McMahon | Y | Y | Y | Executive Vice Chairman, Bank of America Merrill Lynch | |
| Heather and Paul G. Haaga | Y | Y | Y | ||
| Henry Gordon | Y | Y | Y | President, Strata Resources Inc. | |
| Howard H. Leach | Y | Y | Y | Y | President, Leach Capital, LLC |
| Ivor Massey, Jr. | Y | Y | Y | Triad LC | |
| J. Christopher Kojima | Y | Y | Managing Director, Goldman, Sachs & Co. | ||
| J. Joe Ricketts | Y | Y | Y | Y | |
| J. Ronald Terwilliger | Y | ||||
| James C. Rahn | Y | Y | Y | Y | President, Kern Family Foundation |
| James D. Carreker | Y | Y | Y | Y | JDC Holdings |
| James F. Mooney | Y | Y | Y | Partner, The Baupost Group, LLC | |
| James H. Donovan | Y | Y | Y | Y | Managing Director, Goldman Sachs |
| James L. Haskel | Y | Y | Y | ||
| James M. Denny | Y | ||||
| James M. Seneff | Y | Y | Y | Y | Executive Chairman, CNL Financial Group, Inc. |
| James S. Tisch | Y | President and Chief Executive Officer, Loew Corporation | |||
| Janet and Craig Duchossois | Y | ||||
| Jay Adair | Y | Y | Y | ||
| Jeff Wyler | Y | Y | Y | Chief Executive Officer, Jeff Wyler Automotive Family | |
| Jeffrey L. Silverman | Y | Y | Y | Chairman and Co-Founder, Agman Partners | |
| Jimmy and Dee Haslam | Y | Y | |||
| Joanie and Don McNamara | Y | Y | Y | ||
| Joe Craft and Kelly Knight | Y | Y | Y | ||
| Joe Lonsdale | Y | Partner, 8VC | |||
| Joel and Stella Freedman | Y | Y | Y | ||
| Joel E. Smilow | Y | ||||
| John and Carol Walter | Y | Y | Y | ||
| John and Carrie Morgridge | Y | Y | Y | Y | Morgridge Foundation |
| John and Karin Kukral | Y | Y | Y | Y | |
| John B. Mowell | Y | President, Mowell Financial Group, Incorporated | |||
| John Connors | Y | Partner, Ignition Partners | |||
| John D. Baker | Y | Y | Y | Y | |
| John D. Johns | Y | Y | |||
| John Evangelakos | Y | Y | Y | Sullivan & Cromwell, LLP | |
| John K. Castle | Y | Y | Y | Y | Chairman and Chief Executive Officer, Castle Harlan, Inc. |
| John K. Hurley | Y | Founder and Managing Partner, Cavalry Asset Management | |||
| John Kingston | Y | Y | Y | ||
| John W. and Jeanne M. Rowe | Y | Y | Y | ||
| John W. Holman, III | Y | Y | Y | Managing Director, Eagle Capital Management, LLC | |
| Jon D. Hammes | Y | Y | Y | Y | Hammes Company |
| Jonathan O. Lee | Y | President, Lee Capital Investments, LLC | |||
| Josh Friedman | Y | Y | Y | ||
| Judson and Joyce Green | Y | Y | Y | ||
| Kate Richard | Y | Warwick Energy Group | |||
| Ken Hirsh | Y | Y | Y | ||
| Ken Langone | Y | Y | Y | ||
| Kenneth B. Mehlman | Y | Y | Y | Y | Member & Global Head of Public Affairs, Kohlberg Kravis Roberts |
| Kenneth Broad | Y | Y | Y | ||
| Kenneth H. and Yvonne S. Hannan | Y | Y | Y | Colonial Navigation Co. Inc. | |
| Kenneth H. Hannan | Y | President, Colonial Navigation Co. Inc. | |||
| Kenneth Hersh | Y | George W. Bush Presidential Center | |||
| Kerry Murphy Healey | Y | Y | |||
| Kimberly O. Dennis | Y | Y | Y | Y | President, Searle Freedom Trust |
| Kip Hagopian | Y | Y | |||
| Kohlberg Kravis Roberts | 2 | ||||
| Kurt Dudas | Y | Y | Y | Ehrenkranz Partners | |
| Lawrence D. Stern | Y | Chairman & Chief Executive Officer, Talecris Biotherapeutics | |||
| Les Ware | Y | ||||
| Lewis M. Eisenberg | Y | Y | Y | ||
| Linda McMahon | Y | Y | Y | Principal and former Chief Executive Officer, World Wrestling Entertainment | |
| Lou Oberndorf | Y | Y | |||
| M. Holt Massey | Y | Y | Y | ||
| Marc Stern | Y | Y | Y | ||
| Maria and Brent Frei | Y | Y | |||
| Mark Carlin | Y | Y | Y | Executive Vice President, Lockton Insurance Brokers, Inc. | |
| Mark D. Gibson | Y | Y | Y | Executive Managing Director, HFF, L.P. | |
| Mark Dorman | Y | Y | Y | Managing Director, Endeavour Capital | |
| Martin C. Eltrich | Y | Y | Y | Y | Partner, AEA Investors |
| Martin Cohen | Y | Y | Y | Executive Chairman, Cohen & Steers | |
| Martin J. Gross | Y | President and Founder, Sandalwood Associates, Inc. | |||
| Martin L. Garcia | Y | Y | Y | ||
| Martin Lipton | Y | Y | Partner, Wachtell, Lipton, Rosen & Katz | ||
| Martin P. Hughes | Y | Y | Y | ||
| Mary Anne (M.A.) and Jim Rogers | Y | ||||
| Mary Lou and John Dasburg | Y | Y | Y | ||
| Mayari Pritzker | Y | Y | Y | President, Robert and Mayari Pritzker Family Foundation | |
| Michael “Mike” B. Fernandez | Y | Y | Chairman, MBF Healthcare Partners | ||
| Michael A. Delaney | Y | Y | Managing Partner, Court Square Capital Partners | ||
| Michael and Robin Zafirovski | Y | ||||
| Michael Doar | Y | Y | |||
| Michael E. Martino | Y | Y | Y | Co-Founder, Mason Capital Management | |
| Michael H. Simmonds | Y | Chairman, Simmonds Holdings | |||
| Michael J. Fourticq, Sr. | Y | Y | Y | Hancock Park Associates | |
| Michael L. Keiser | Y | Y | Y | Y | Co-Founder, Recycled Paper Greetings, Inc |
| Michael Sullivan | Y | Y | Y | Point72 Asset Management | |
| Mike Cassling | Y | Chief Executive Officer, Cassling | |||
| Mikee Johnson | Y | Y | Chief Executive Officer and President, Cox Industries, Inc. | ||
| Morton Fleischer | Y | Chairman, STORE Capital Corporation | |||
| Mr. and Mrs. Robert S. Murley | Y | Y | Y | ||
| Muneer Satter | Y | Y | Y | Y | Founder, Satter Investment Management, LLC |
| Nancy and Gary Chartrand | Y | Y | Y | ||
| Nathan E. Saint-Amand | Y | Y | Y | Y | |
| Nicholas Pinchuk | Y | ||||
| Oliver Grace | Y | ||||
| Pat Neal | Y | Neal Communities | |||
| Patrick and Charlene Neal | Y | Y | Y | Neal Communities | |
| Paul and June Schorr | Y | Y | Y | ||
| Paul G. Haaga | Y | Chairman, Capital Research and Management Company | |||
| Paul J. Isaac | Y | Y | Y | Arbiter Partners | |
| Paul L. “Lew” Davies III and Pilar H. Davies | Y | Y | Managing Principal, The Cambria Group | ||
| Peter B. Clark | Y | Y | Y | ||
| Peter Nolan | Y | Y | Y | ||
| Peter S. Rummell | Y | Y | Y | Y | Chief Executive Officer, Rummell Company LLC |
| Philip and Judy Nussbaum | Y | Y | |||
| Philip J. Purcell | Y | Y | Y | ||
| Philip Lebherz | Y | Y | Chairman, Lebherz Insurance Services, Inc. | ||
| R. H. (Ric) Dillon | Y | Chairman, Diamond Hill Investment Group, Inc. | |||
| Randy P. Kendrick | Y | Y | Y | Y | |
| Ray and Heather Washburne | Y | Y | Y | Y | Charter Holdings |
| Ray Gilmartin | Y | ||||
| Richard A. Kayne | Y | Y | Y | Chief Executive Officer, Kayne Anderson Capital Advisors, Inc. | |
| Richard and Allison Roeder | Y | Y | Y | ||
| Richard Driehaus | Y | Y | Y | ||
| Richard H. Lenny | Y | Y | Y | ||
| Richard J. Riordan | Y | Y | Y | ||
| Richard K. Roeder | Y | Partner, Vance Street Capital, LLC | |||
| Richard M. Jaffee | Y | Y | |||
| Richard R. Ong | Y | Y | Y | Managing Director, Eagle Capital Management, LLC | |
| Rob Taylor | Y | Y | Y | ||
| Robert A. Eckert | Y | Y | Y | Mattel, Inc. | |
| Robert and Mary McCormack | Y | Y | Y | ||
| Robert B. and Janet A. Hoffman | Y | Y | Y | Y | Double V Trust Funds |
| Robert H. Castellini | Y | Y | Y | Y | Chairman, Castellini Company |
| Robert H. Niehaus | Y | Y | Y | Y | GCP Capital Partners LLC |
| Robert K. Steel | Y | Y | Y | ||
| Robert P. Ryan | Y | Y | Elliott Management Corporation | ||
| Robert Rosenkranz | Y | Y | Y | Y | Chairman, Delphi Financial Group |
| Robert Rowling | Y | Y | Y | ||
| Robert S. Murley | Y | Vice Chairman, Credit Suisse | |||
| Rodger R. Krouse | Y | Y | Y | Co-Chief Executive Officer, Sun Capital Partners, Inc. | |
| Roger T. Servison | Y | Y | Fidelity Investments | ||
| Ronald J. Gidwitz | Y | Y | Y | Principal, GCG Partners | |
| Ross McKnight | Y | Y | Chairman of the Board, Olney Bancshares of Texas, Inc. | ||
| Roy W. Lennox | Y | Founder, Arrowhawk Capital Partners | |||
| Russell L. Carson | Y | Y | Y | General Partner, Welsh, Carson, Anderson & Stowe | |
| Ryan Taylor | Y | Y | Y | ||
| Sam and Marilyn Fox | Y | Y | Y | Founder Harbour Group | |
| Sam Fox | Y | Founder, Harbour Group | |||
| Sarah and Ross Perot, Jr | Y | Y | Y | ||
| Scott Zajac | Y | Y | Y | ||
| Sean Healey | Y | Y | Chairman and Chief Executive Officer, Affiliated Managers Group, Inc. | ||
| Sean M. Fieler | Y | Y | Y | Y | General Partner Equinox Partners, LP |
| Sheldon M. Stone | Y | Y | Y | ||
| Shelly and Michael Kassen | Y | Y | Y | ||
| Spencer Fleischer | Y | Y | Y | ||
| Stanley S. Hubbard | Y | Y | Chairman and Chief Executive Officer, Hubbard Broadcasting, Inc. | ||
| Stephen M. Kotran | Y | Y | Y | Sullivan & Cromwell, LLP | |
| Steven Klinsky | Y | ||||
| Steven Price | Y | Y | Y | Y | Chairman and Chief Executive Officer, Townsquare Media, Inc. |
| Steven Shafran | Y | Y | |||
| Steven Shapiro | Y | Y | GoldenTree Asset Management | ||
| Steven T. Halverson | Y | Y | |||
| Steven Tananbaum | Y | Y | Y | ||
| Sue Koffel | Y | Y | Y | Y | |
| Sumner E. Anderson | Y | ||||
| Susan Crown and William Kunkler | Y | Y | Y | ||
| Sylvie Lègére and Todd Ricketts | Y | Y | Y | ||
| Tad Smith | Y | ||||
| Thilo Best | Y | Y | Principal, Bayshore Retirement Partners | ||
| Thomas F. Stephenson | Y | Partner, Sequoia Capital | |||
| Thomas Hillman | Y | Y | |||
| Thomas P. Stossel and Kerry Maguire | Y | Y | |||
| Thomas S. Roberts | Y | Y | Y | Managing Director, Summit Partners | |
| Timothy C. Collins | Y | Chief Executive Officer, Ripplewood Advisors, LLC | |||
| Tod and Susan Hullin | Y | Y | Y | ||
| Tod R. Hullin | Y | Chairman, Arrowwood Partners | |||
| Troy and Elizabeth Fowler | Y | Y | Y | Board of Directors, Triad Foundation | |
| W. Ross Singletary II | Y | Y | Y | Managing Partner, Arcus Capital Partners | |
| W.R. (Bill) Byrd | Y | President, RCP Inc. | |||
| William Kourakos | Y | Y | Y | Perella Weinberg Partners | |
| William N. Shiebler | Y | Treetops Companies | |||
| Y. Michele Kang | Y | Founder & CEO, Cognosante | |||
| Yvette and Lou Klobuchar Jr. | Y | Y | Y |
Scholars
| Name | 2015[14] | 2016 | 2017 | Description |
| Adam Lerrick | Y | Y | Y | Visiting Scholar |
| Alan D. Viard | Y | Y | Y | Resident Scholar |
| Alex Brill | Y | Y | Y | Research Fellow |
| Alex J. Pollock | Y | Resident Fellow | ||
| Andrew Bowen | Y | Visiting Scholar | ||
| Andrew G. Biggs | Y | Y | Y | Resident Scholar |
| Andrew P. Kelly | Y | Y | AEI Resident Scholar and Director, AEI Center on Higher Education Reform | |
| Andy Smarick | Y | Resident Fellow | ||
| Angela Rachidi | Y | Y | Y | Research Fellow, Poverty Studies |
| Aparna Mathur | Y | Y | Y | Resident Scholar, Economic Policy |
| Ariel Rabkin | Y | Y | Visiting Fellow with AEI’s Center for Internet, Communications, and Technology | |
| Arthur C. Brooks | Y | Y | Y | President and Beth and Ravenel Curry Chair in Free Enterprise, American Enterprise Institute |
| Aspen Gorry | Y | Visiting Scholar | ||
| Babette Boliek | Y | Visiting Fellow with AEI’s Center for Internet, Communications, and Technology Policy | ||
| Barry K. Goodwin | Y | Y | Visiting Scholar | |
| Benedic N. Ippolito | Y | Y | Research Fellow in Economic Policy Studies | |
| Benjamin Zycher | Y | Y | Resident Scholar and John G. Searle Chair | |
| Bret Swanson | Y | Y | Y | Visiting Fellow with AEI’s Center for Internet, Communications, and Technology |
| Bruce D. Meyer | Y | Y | Visiting Scholar | |
| Charles Murray | Y | Y | Y | W. H. Brady Scholar |
| Christina Hoff Sommers | Y | Y | Y | Resident Scholar |
| Claude Barfield | Y | Y | Y | Resident Scholar |
| Dalibor Rohac | Y | Y | Y | Research Fellow, Foreign Policy Studies |
| Dan Blumenthal | Y | Y | Y | Director of Asian Studies and Resident Fellow |
| Danielle Pletka | Y | Y | Y | Senior Vice President, Foreign and Defense Policy Studies |
| David Schoenbrod | Y | Visiting Scholar | ||
| Derek Scissors | Y | Y | Y | Resident Scholar |
| Desmond Lachman | Y | Y | Y | Resident Fellow |
| Ed Olsen | Y | Visiting Scholar | ||
| Edward Blum | Y | Y | Y | Visiting Fellow |
| Edward Conard | Y | Y | Y | Visiting Fellow |
| Edward J. Pinto | Y | Y | Y | Resident Fellow and Codirector of AEI's International Center on Housing Risk |
| Eric J. Belasco | Y | Y | Visiting Scholar | |
| Flavio Felice | Y | Y | Y | AEI Adjunct Scholar University of Molise |
| Frederick M. Hess | Y | Y | Y | Resident Scholar and Director of Education Policy Studies |
| Frederick W. Kagan | Y | Y | Y | Resident Scholar and Director, Critical Threats Project and Christopher DeMuth Chair |
| Gary J. Schmitt | Y | Y | Y | Resident Scholar, Co-Director of the Marilyn Ware Center for Security Studies and Director of the Program on American Citizenship |
| Gerard Robinson | Y | Y | Y | Resident Fellow, Education Policy Studies |
| J. Matthew McInnis | Y | Y | Y | Resident Fellow |
| James C. Capretta | Y | Y | Y | Resident Fellow and Milton Friedman Chair |
| James K. Glassman | Y | Y | Y | Visiting Fellow. James K. Glassman is known for hosting “TCS Daily,” a publication of Tech Central Station. [15] |
| James Pethokoukis | Y | Y | Y | Editor, AEIdeas DeWitt Wallace Fellow |
| Jason D. Delisle | Y | Y | Resident Fellow | |
| Jeffrey Eisenach | Y | Y | Y | Visiting Scholar and Director, Center for Internet, Communications, and Technology Policy |
| Jim Talent | Y | Y | Y | Visiting Senior Fellow and Director, National Security 2020 Project, Marilyn Ware Center for Security Studies |
| Joe Glauber | Y | Y | Visiting Scholar | |
| Joel M. Zinberg | Y | Y | Y | Visiting Scholar |
| John H. Makin | Y | (1943-2015). Resident Scholar | ||
| John R. Bolton | Y | Y | Y | Senior Fellow |
| John W. Miller | Y | Visiting Fellow | ||
| John Yoo | Y | Y | Y | Visiting Scholar |
| Jon Kyl | Y | Y | Y | Visiting Fellow |
| Jonah Goldberg | Y | Y | Y | Fellow |
| Joseph Antos | Y | Y | Y | Resident scholar and Wilson H. Taylor Scholar in Health Care and Retirement Policy |
| Karlyn Bowman | Y | Y | Y | Senior Fellow |
| Katharine B. Stevens | Y | Y | Y | Resident Scholar, Education Policy Studies |
| Katherine Zimmerman | Y | Y | Y | Research Fellow |
| Kevin A. Hassett | Y | Y | Y | State Farm James Q. Wilson Chair in American Politics and Culture and Director of Research for Domestic Policy |
| Kevin C. Corinth | Y | Y | Y | Research Fellow in Economic Policy Studies |
| Kevin J. James | Y | Research Fellow, Center on Higher Education Reform | ||
| Kirsten D. Madison | Y | Y | Resident Fellow and Deputy Director of Foreign and Defense Policy Studies | |
| Leon Aron | Y | Y | Y | Resident Scholar and Director of Russian Studies |
| Leon R. Kass | Y | Y | Y | Resident Scholar and Madden-Jewett Chair |
| Lindsey R. Neas | Y | AEI Research Fellow, Marilyn Ware Center for Security Studies | ||
| Lynne V. Cheney | Y | Y | Y | Senior Fellow |
| Mackenzie Eaglen | Y | Y | Y | Resident Fellow at the Marilyn Ware Center for Security Studies |
| Madeline Zavodny | Y | Y | Y | AEI Adjunct Scholar Agnes Scott College |
| Marc A. Thiessen | Y | Y | Y | Resident Fellow |
| Mark J. Perry | Y | Y | Y | Scholar |
| Mark Schneider | Y | Y | Y | Visiting Scholar |
| Mary Habeck | Y | Visiting Scholar | ||
| Matt A. Mayer | Y | Visiting Fellow, Homeland Security Studies | ||
| Matt Jensen | Y | Y | Managing Director, Open-Source Policy Center | |
| Matthew H. Jensen | Y | Managing Director, Open-Source Policy Center | ||
| Maura Corrigan | Y | Y | Visiting Fellow | |
| Michael Auslin | Y | Y | Y | Resident scholar and Director of Japan Studies |
| Michael Barone | Y | Y | Y | Resident Fellow |
| Michael Mazza | Y | Y | Y | Research Fellow, Foreign and Defense Policy Studies |
| Michael Q. McShane | Y | Y | Y | AEI Adjunct Fellow, Education Policy Studies |
| Michael R. Strain | Y | Y | Y | Director of Economic Policy Studies and Resident Scholar |
| Michael Rubin | Y | Y | Y | Resident Scholar |
| Mike Daniels | Y | Y | Y | Visiting Fellow with AEI’s Center for Internet, Communications, and Technology Policy |
| Nat Malkus | Y | Y | Y | Research Fellow, Education Policy Studies |
| Nicholas Eberstadt | Y | Y | Y | Henry Wendt Chair in Political Economy |
| Norman J. Ornstein | Y | Y | Y | Resident Scholar |
| Paul H. Kupiec | Y | Y | Y | Resident Scholar |
| Paul Wolfowitz | Y | Y | Y | Visiting Scholar |
| Peter J. Wallison | Y | Y | Y | Senior Fellow and Arthur F. Burns Fellow in Financial Policy Studies |
| Phil Gramm | Y | Y | Y | Visiting Scholar |
| Phillip Lohaus | Y | Y | Y | Research Fellow, Marilyn Ware Center for Security Studies |
| Phillip Swagel | Y | Y | Y | Visiting Scholar |
| R. Glenn Hubbard | Y | Y | Y | Visiting Scholar |
| R. Richard Geddes | Y | Y | Y | Visiting Scholar |
| Rachel M. McCleary | Y | Visiting Scholar | ||
| Ramesh Ponnuru | Y | Y | Y | Visiting Fellow |
| Richard Bennett | Y | Visiting Fellow, AEI Center for Internet, Communications, and Technology Policy | ||
| Robert B. Helms | Y | Y | Y | Resident Scholar |
| Robert Doar | Y | Y | Y | Resident Fellow and Morgridge Fellow in Poverty Studies |
| Robert J. Barro | Y | Y | John H. Makin Visiting Scholar | |
| Roger Bate | Y | Y | Y | Visiting Scholar |
| Roger F. Noriega | Y | Y | Y | Visiting Fellow |
| Roger I. Zakheim | Y | Y | Y | Visiting Fellow |
| Roslyn Layton | Y | Y | Y | Visiting Fellow at AEI's Center for Internet, Communications, and Technology Policy |
| Ryan Streeter | Y | AEI Director of Domestic Policy Studies | ||
| Sadanand Dhume | Y | Y | Y | Resident Fellow |
| Sally Satel | Y | Y | Y | Resident Scholar |
| Scott Gottlieb | Y | Y | Y | Resident Fellow |
| Shane Tews | Y | Y | Y | Visiting Fellow with AEI’s Center for Internet, Communications, and Technology Policy |
| Sita Nataraj Slavov | Y | Y | Y | Visiting Scholar |
| Stan Veuger | Y | Y | Y | Resident Scholar |
| Stephen D. Oliner | Y | Y | Y | Resident Scholar and Codirector of AEI's International Center on Housing Risk |
| Thomas Donnelly | Y | Y | Y | Resident Fellow and Co-Director of the Marilyn Ware Center for Security Studies |
| Thomas P. Miller | Y | Y | Y | Resident Fellow |
| Thomas Peter Stossel | Y | Y | Visiting Scholar | |
| Timothy P. Carney | Y | Y | Y | Visiting Fellow |
| Tomas J. Philipson | Y | Y | Y | Visiting Scholar |
| Vincent H. Smith | Y | Y | Y | Visiting Scholar and Director, Agriculture Studies |
| Vincent R. Reinhart | Y | Y | Y | Visiting Scholar |
| W. Bradford Wilcox | Y | Y | Y | Visiting Scholar |
| Walter Berns | Y | (1919-2015). Resident Scholar, Emeritus | ||
| Weifeng Zhong | Y | Y | Y | Research Fellow, Economic Policy Studies |
| Wendell L. Willkie II | Y | Y | Visiting Fellow | |
| William Inglee | Y | Y | Y | Visiting Fellow, Marilyn Ware Center for Security Studies |
Actions
September 17, 2018
UK Treasury minister Liz Truss met with representatives from the AEI during a visit to Washington DC, Greenpeace's investigative unit, Unearthed, found. The taxpayer-funded trip also included meetings with the Cato Institute, the American Legislative Exchange Council, Americans for Tax Reform, and the Heritage Foundation. [41]
April 17, 2018
AEI hosted an event titled “What did they know, and when did they know it? The municipal climate litigation, the fossil-fuel industry, and the municipal bond market” to discuss the ongoing legal actions as cities and municipalities sue large oil companies for damage caused by fossil fuels. Climate change deniner Patrick Michaels was featured on the panel, using his time to criticize the reliability of climate models. See video below: [40]
February 22 - 25, 2017
The AEI was a Participating Sponsor of the 2017 Conservative Political Action Conference (CPAC), among a range of other conservative and pro-industry groups. [38]
June, 2016
The American Enterprise Institute was among organizations named in a Massachusetts subpoena looking for communications between ExxonMobil and organizations denying climate change, reports The Washington Times. [35]
Organizations named in the Massachusetts subpoena include the following:
- The Centre for Industrial Progress
- The Acton Institute for the Study of Religion and Liberty
- The American Enterprise Institute
- Americans for Prosperity
- The American Legislative Exchange Council
- The American Petroleum Institute
- The Beacon Hill Institute at Suffolk University
- The George C. Marshall Institute
- The Heartland Institute
- Mercatus Center at George Mason University
This latest inquiry by Massachusetts Attorney General Maura Healey is one in a series of investigations into what ExxonMobil knew about climate change and when, started by a coalition of attorneys general in the US. [36]
June, 2015
Sheldon Whitehouse of Rhode Island and Brian Schatz of Hawaii visited the AEI to discuss a proposal to curb greenhouse gas emissions by taxing them. AEI's head of energy studies, Benjamin Zycher, argued that the carbon tax would have minimal benefit.
As reported by the AEI, “Zycher argued against the senators’ carbon tax plan, arguing that their emphasis on global benefits led to flawed measurement of the social cost of carbon emissions, that the impact on temperatures would be minimal, and that the rest of the world would have an incentive to free-ride at the expense of the US.” [19]
Chad Stone, chief economist at the Center on Budget and Policy Priorities, commented that Zycher's view was “based on a very skeptical reading of the scientific evidence on global warming and a worldview in which, with rare exceptions like national defense, government activities are almost always rooted in special-interest politics and almost always destructive. That position won't likely change, and it doesn't make adherents receptive to a carbon tax of any kind.” [20]
April 21, 2015
The AEI's Scholar Mark J. Perry comments on “18 examples of the spectacularly wrong predictions made around 1970 when the 'green holy day' (aka Earth Day) started.” With reference to issues like climate change, Perry comments that the “hype, hysteria and spectacularly wrong apocalyptic predictions will continue, promoted by the 'environmental grievance hustlers'.” [21]
November 18, 2014
Media Matters reports how Fox News “provided AEI fellow Jonah Goldberg a platform to attack climate scientists as profiteers who are “financially incentivized” to advocate climate change action, without disclosing AEI's own financial incentive to undercut action on climate change.” [22]
Goldberg appeared on the November 18 edition of Your World with Neil Cavuto where you argued that mainstream climate scientists have a conflict of interest because they are “deeply invested in the whole industry of global warming” for university program funding. View the video below.
August, 2011
AEI President Arthur C. Brooks spoke at a “Leadership Dinner” sponsored by Reynolds American at the 38th Annual Meeting of the American Legislative Exchange Council (ALEC). [23]
Learn more about the American Legislative Exchange Council at the Center for Media and Democracy's ALECexposed.org.
February, 2007
In February 2007, The Guardian (UK) reported that AEI was offering scientists and economists $10,000 each, “to undermine a major climate change report” from the United Nations Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change (IPCC).
AEI asked for “articles that emphasize the shortcomings” of the IPCC report. AEI visiting scholar Kenneth Green made the $10,000 offer “to scientists in Britain, the US and elsewhere,” in a letter describing the IPCC as “resistant to reasonable criticism and dissent.” [24]
June, 2003
AEI and the Federalist Society launched a project and website called NGOWatch to monitor nongovernmental organizations (NGOs), especially those involved in foreign policy and international relations. [25]
Later reorganized and renamed Global Government Watch, the initiative was initially launched at an AEI conference entitled “NGOs: The Growing Power of an Unelected Few,” which was cosponsored by the right-wing Australian think-tank Institute of Public Affairs. [26]
According to the conference organizers, “NGOs have created their own rules and regulations and demanded that governments and corporations abide by those rules.”
August 2, 2002
AEI wrote to President Bush discouraging him from attending the UN Summit on Sustainable Development. Bush did not attend. [27]
AEI Contact & Location
As of June 2016, the American Enterprise Institute (AEI) listed the following contact information on their website: [37]
American Enterprise Institute
1150 Seventeenth Street, NW
Washington, DC 20036
Main telephone: 202.862.5800
Main fax: 202.862.7177
Related Organizations
- NGOWatch.org — In 2011, Global Governance Watch® described itself as “a collaborative project of the American Enterprise Institute for Public Policy Research and the Federalist Society for Law and Public Policy Studies.” Their current website no longer lists their connection to the American Enterprise Institute. [28], [29]
- Mont Pelerin Society — Member [30]
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ExxonSecrets Factsheet: American Enterprise Institute for Public Policy Research
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“Board of Trustees,” AEI. Archived April 30, 2003.
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“The Kyoto Treaty Deserved to Die,” The American Enterprise Online. Archived June 5, 2008. Originally published in Energy Crunch, September 2001.
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Benjamin Zycher. “The Fact-free Opposition to Keystone XL,” The American Enterprise Institute, February 5, 2014. Archived August 20, 2015.
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Jeffrey Sachs. “How the AEI Distorts the Climate Debate,” Huffington Post, February 8, 2014. Archived August 20, 2015.
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“To tax or not to tax: Senators Sheldon Whitehouse and Brian Schatz present their American Opportunity Carbon Fee Act,” American Enterprise Institute, June 10, 2015. Archived August 20, 2015.
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Chad Stone. “Will Republicans Ever Buy a Carbon Tax?” USNews.com, June 12, 2015. Archived August 20, 2015.
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Mark J. Perry. “18 spectacularly wrong apocalyptic predictions made around the time of the first Earth Day in 1970, expect more this year,” American Enterprise Institute, April 21, 2015.
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Libby Watson. “On Fox, Pundit From Oil-Funded Group Says Climate Scientists Are The Profiteers,” Media Matters for America, November 18, 2014. Archived August 20, 2015.
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“Hundreds of State Legislators Gather to Discuss Policy Solutions Promoting Economic Growth and Limited Government,” ALEC, August 3, 2011. Archived January 11, 2012.
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