The Independent Institute - Publications

Publications

The results of the Institute's work are published as books and other publications and form the basis for conferences and media programs . Books are published by such publishers as Oxford University Press, Cambridge University Press, Farrar Straus & Giroux, Palgrave, University of Michigan Press, Stanford University Press, Ivan R. Dee, New York University Press, University Press of Kentucky.

For 15 years, the Institute has published a quarterly journal, The Independent Review, edited by the economist and historian Robert Higgs. Devoted to the study of political economy and the critical analysis of government policy, the Independent Review is peer-reviewed and includes articles ranging across the fields of economics, political science, law, history, philosophy and sociology.

Articles on the institute's findings are published in newspapers, magazines and journals, and its fellows appear on TV and radio programs in the U.S. and around the world. In addition, the institute conducts conference programs for scholars, business leaders, the media, policy makers and the general public. The institute's Independent Policy Forum series of seminars has featured historians Joyce Appleby and Robert Conquest; economists Roger Noll, Peter Bauer Gary Becker and James M. Buchanan; legal scholars Alex Kozinski, Richard Epstein, David D. Cole, and Randy Barnett; foreign policy experts Lawrence Korb, Daniel Ellsberg, George Shultz, Michael Scheuer, and Gen. William Odom; criminologists Gary Kleck, and James Q. Wilson; authors Gore Vidal, P. J. O'Rourke, George Gilder, Shelby Steele, Michael Crichton and Czesław Miłosz.; human rights leaders Harry Wu, Desmond Tutu, and Elena Bonner; scientists Bruce Ames, John Christy, and Charles Townes; judges Vaughn Walker and James P. Gray; journalists Alexander Cockburn, John Stossel, Bill Kurtis; business leaders David Packard, John Templeton, Robert Galvin, and Walter B. Wriston.

Drawing upon its program in criminal justice, the institute organized a series of televised debates on PBS-TV, Stopping Violent Crime: New Directions for Reduction and Prevention, hosted by Harvard law professor and Emmy Award-winner, Arthur R. Miller, and featuring former U.S. Attorney General Richard Thornburgh, Federal Judge David Sentelle, civil libertarian writer Wendy Kaminer, and others.

In 2006, having launched an office in Washington, the institute expanded its media program, including a weekly column by Senior Fellow Álvaro Vargas Llosa in the Washington Post. Following up on its earlier Open Letters on health care, high technology, and other issues, the institute released an Open Letter on Immigration, signed by more than 500 economists, including five Nobel laureates, and received editorial endorsements in the New York Times and Wall Street Journal..

The Institute operates programs for students, including a competitive essay contest for college students, summer seminars for high school and college students, student internships, and tuition assistance for disadvantaged families to send their children to private schools (Independent Scholarship Fund ).