In an upcoming piece, AEI's Kevin Hassett highlights a new unique index of policy uncertainty which was developed in a path-breaking paper by Stanford economists Scott R. Baker and Nicholas Bloom along with AEI Visiting Scholar and University of Chicago economist Steve Davis. Among...

In light of recent attacks on Governor Mitt Romney’s record at Bain Capital, American Enterprise Institute (AEI) director of economic policy studies Kevin Hassett and economist Steven Davis examine in their recently published piece what is private equity, its impact on jobs, and its role in the American economy.

Governor Romney's defenders have argued that critics of his role at Bain Capital are really attacking capitalism itself. Given the academic evidence, we would have to agree.

Why do only a minority of Americans feel that they have saved adequately for their retirement? Little is known about why people fail to plan for retirement and whether wide variations in Americans’ financial knowledge may affect their decisions about how much to save and which investments to hold.

At this...

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For the past half century, the United States has been the world’s scientific and technological leader: American multinationals are at the forefront of commercial technologies; U.S. exports are disproportionately from sectors that rely extensively on scientific and...

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Louis Uchitelle, economics writer for the New York Times and author of the newly released The Disposable American: Layoffs and Their Consequences (Random House, March 2006), will present his findings at this AEI event. Mr. Uchitelle will...

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The United States currently has a large number of policies designed to assist low-income workers. The primary mechanism is the U.S. tax code, with revenue losses to tax credits for low-income workers, such as the Earned Income...