Black People : What exactly is the BROOKINGS INSTITUTE?

I may be wrong but it's a little more then that

one view..they are a think tank. You could become one..LOL
No disrespect but it's
Kinda like saying the Cosa Nostra is a Sicilian Social club, and I can become a member.

Initially centrist, the Institution took its first step rightwards during the depression, in response to the New Deal. In the 1960s, it was linked to the conservative wing of the Democratic party, backing Keynsian economics. From the mid-70s it cemented a close relationship with the Republican party. Since the 1990s it has taken steps further towards the right in parallel with the increasing influence of right-wing think tanks such as the Heritage Foundation.

The organisation's work concentrates on these research programs: [1]

Economic Studies
Foreign Policy Studies
Global Economy and Development
Governance Studies
Metropolitan Policy
It also operates the Center for Public Policy Education and the Brookings Institution Press, which publishes about fifty books a year.

Board of Trustees
The Brookings Institution – Board of Trustees with Affiliations as of May 2007:[3]

John L. Thornton, Chair of the Board, The Brookings Institution
Strobe Talbott, President, The Brookings Institution
Robert J. Abernethy, President, American Standard Development Co., Inc.
Liaquat Ahamed, Former Chief Investment Officer, Fischer Francis Trees and Watts, Inc.
Alan R. Batkin, Vice Chairman, Eton Park Capital Management
Richard C. Blum, Chairman and President, Blum Capital Partners, LP
Geoffrey T. Boisi, Chairman and Senior Partner, Roundtable Investment Partners LLC
Arthur B. Culvahouse, Jr., Chair, O'Melveny & Myers LLP
Alan M. Dachs, President and CEO, Fremont Group
Kenneth W. Dam, Max Pam Professor of American & Foreign Law, University of Chicago Law School
Steven A. Denning, Managing Partner, General Atlantic Partners
Vishakha N. Desai Ph.D., President and CEO, The Asia Society
Thomas E. Donilon, Partner, O'Melveny & Myers LLP
Mario Draghi, Governor, Bank of Italy
Kenneth M. Duberstein, Chairman and CEO, The Duberstein Group, Inc.
Alfred B. Engelberg, Trustee, The Engelberg Foundation
Lawrence K. Fish, Chairman and CEO, Citizens Financial Group, Inc.
Cyrus F. Freidheim Jr., President and CEO, Sun-Times Media Group, Inc.
Bart Friedman, Senior Partner, Cahill Gordon & Reindel
David Friend, President and CEO, Carbonite, Inc.
Ann M. Fudge
Jeffrey W. Greenberg, Chairman and CEO, Aquiline Holdings LLC
Brian L. Greenspun, Chairman and CEO, The Greenspun Corporation
Glenn Hutchins, Founder and Managing Partner, Silver Lake Partners
Joel Z. Hyatt, CEO, Current Media, LLC
Shirley Ann Jackson, Ph.D. President, Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute
Kenneth M. Jacobs, Deputy Chairman, Lazard Frères & Co. LLC
Suzanne Nora Johnson, Senior Director, Retired Vice Chairman, The Goldman Sachs Group, Inc.
Harold Hongju Koh, Dean of Yale Law School, Yale University
William A. Owens, Chairman and CEO, AEA Investors LLC
Frank H. Pearl, Chairman and CEO, Perseus, LLC
John Edward Porter, Partner, Hogan & Hartson
Edgar Rios, Executive Vice President and General Counsel, Americhoice
Haim Saban, Chairman and CEO, Saban Capital Group, Inc.
Victoria P. Sant, President, The Summit Foundation
Leonard D. Schaeffer, Chairman and CEO, North Bristol Partners
Lawrence H. Summers, Charles W. Eliot University Professor, Harvard University
David F. Swensen, Chief Investment Officer, Yale University
Larry D. Thompson, Senior VP of Governmental Affairs, General Counsel and Secretary, PepsiCo, Inc.
Andrew H. Tisch, Co-Chairman of the Board, Loews Corporation
Laura D’Andrea, Tyson Professor, Haas School of Business, University of California, Berkeley
Antoine W. van Agtmael, Chairman, Emerging Markets Management, LLC
Beatrice W. Welters, Founder, The An-Bryce Foundation
Daniel Yergin, Chairman, Cambridge Energy Research Associates

Cooperation & Affiliation
American Enterprise Institute, US (AEI-Brookings Joint Center for Regulatory Studies; joint conferences, publications, research)

Wharton Business School, US (Brookings-Wharton Papers on Economic Activity; joint research, conferences, publications)


 
American Enterprise????

American Enterprise Institute

American Enterprise Institute
The American Enterprise Institute for Public Policy Research (AEI) is one of the oldest and most influential of the pro-business right-wing think tanks. It promotes the advancement of free enterprise capitalism, and has been extremely successful in placing its people in influential governmental positions, particularly in the Bush Administration. AEI has been described as one of the country's main bastions of neoconservatism.

American Enterprise Institute
1150 Seventeenth Street NW
Washington, DC 20036
Website: www.aei.org

Established: 1943
President/Executive Director: Christopher DeMuth
Finances: $24,934,545 (2003 income)
Employees: more than 50 resident scholars and fellows
Board of Trustees: Chairman Bruce Kovner (Caxton Associations, LLC); Vice Chair Lee R. Raymond (Exxon Mobil Corporation); Treasurer Tully M. Friedman (Friedman, Fleischer, & Lowe LLC); Gordon M. Binder (Coastview Capital, LLC); Harlan Crow (Crow Holdings); Christopher DeMuth (American Enterprise Institute); Morton H. Fleischer (Spirit Finance Corp.); Christopher B. Galvin (Motorola); Raymond V. Gilmartin (Merck & Co.); Harvey Golub (American Express Co.); Robert F. Greenhill (Greenhill & Co., LLC) ; Roger Hertog (Alliance Capital Management Corporation); Martin M. Koffel (URS Corporation); John A. Luke, Jr. (MeadWestvaco Corp.); L. Ben Lytle (Anthem, Inc.); Alex Mandl (Gemplus International); Robert A. Pritzker (Colson Associates, Inc.); J. Joe Ricketts (Ameritrade Holding Corporation); Kevin B. Rollins (Dell, Inc.); John W. Rowe (Exelon Corp.); Edward B. Rust, Jr. (State Farm Insurance Co.); William S. Stavropoulos (Dow Chemical Co.); Wilson H. Taylor (CIGNA Corp.); Marilyn Ware (American Water); James Q. Wilson (Pepperdine University)
Publications: Monthly newsletter, dozens of books and hundreds of articles and reports each year, and a glossy policy magazine, The American Enterprise.


Principal Issues
American Enterprise Institute (AEI) is a think tank for conservatives, neoconservatives, and conservative libertarians.
Areas of interest include: America's "culture war," domestic policy and federal spending, education reform, neoconservatism, affirmative action, and welfare reform.
President George W. Bush has appointed over a dozen people from AEI to senior positions in his administration. AEI claims that this is more than any other research institution.


Activities
AEI sponsors and participates in debates and lectures on many issues.
AEI scholars have testified before Congress on a variety of issues.
Several AEI scholars have written articles in favor of government censorship of the arts.
Scholar Michael Novak has argued that prayer belongs in public schools and that it doesn't violate the establishment clause.
AEI scholars have advocated federally-funded school voucher programs.


Background and History
Most of AEI's Board of Directors are CEOs of major companies, including ExxonMobil, Motorola, American Express, State Farm Insurance, and Dow Chemicals.
Big donors include the top conservative foundations, including Smith-Richardson Foundation, the Olin Foundation, the Scaife Foundation, and the Lynde and Harry Bradley Foundation.


http://www.rightwingwatch.org/content/american-enterprise-institute
 
AND WHY ARE THEY SO IMPORTANT????????

They are essentially institutes involved in planning policy, that work in the
interest of the power leagues.

In a book titled, "the powers that be', g. wm. domhoff breaks down how these
think tanks/research inst.'s function.

Here are just some of the ways they function, according to domhoff:

*They provide a framework for commissioned studies by experts on important
issues, thereby assuring leaders within the power elite that they have the latest
and best information on the subject at hand.

*They provide an informal recruiting ground for determining which academic
experts may be suitable for government service, either as faceless staff aides
to the numerous lawyers and business people who take washington positions or
as executive-branch appointees in their own right.

*They provide an informal training ground for new leadership within the
power elite. It is in these organizations that big business-people can determine
which of their peers are best suited for service in the government.
 

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