> [I wonder who the money is behind the AEI? They sure publish a lot of
> books that a normal profit oriented publisher wouldn't have. Which both
> circulates their ideas and gives them unwarranted respectability.
> Especially when they then call well-catered conferences to discuss them
in
> Washington.]
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The 1994 edition of Herbert Stein's "Presidential Economics: The Making of Economic Policy from Roosevelt to Clinton" has a list of sponsors in the back of the book. I don't know if it's exhaustive, some have dropped off due to M&A's/Corp. restructuring and others surely have come on board. Here's the biz. part of the list:
Dow Chemical CIGNA Corp. Blount Inc. Procter&Gamble Geneva Steel Company Union Camp Corporation Cox Oil & Gas Forbes Inc. Hellman & Friedman Motorola Smith Barney Shearson Coca-Cola Texaco FMC Corp. Kohlberg Kravis Roberts & Co. State Farm Mutual Automobile Insurance GTE Forstmann Little & Co.