The Brookings Institution

[erpowers]

I was looking on the website of The Brookings Institution and noticed that they have a joint center with AEI. This made me wonder if The Brookings Institution is a liberal think tank. I thought they were a liberal think tank because many of the people from there appear on liberal shows. Does anyone know if The Brookings Institution is actually a liberal think tank?

[MissMarple]

1. Sometimes called "liberal", but it is supposed to be neutral.

Or so I understood. Their economist guy Gale is pretty good and he is not so fond of the Laffer Curve. I think the Laffer Curve is what the radicals are using to excuse their constant call for more tax cuts. It doesn't make any sense when you read what Gale says about it. In fact it sounds really stupid. Google them and see what you think.

[tk2kewl]

2. theyre generally considered to be nonpartisan

but because they concern themseleves with truth and facts they could be confused with being progressive

[Lizzie Borden]

3. They get called 'liberal'.

They beat the hell out of the Heritage Foundation.

[IllegalCombatant]

4. neoliberal - "That Silly Inequality Debate"

By Nancy Birdsall
Brookings Institution
May 2002

Most analyses and studies of trends in global income inequality usually end up on one side or another of a rather silly debate.

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Robert Hunter Wade nicely explains how easy it is for people to disagree on the facts in his recent opinion essay "The Rising Inequality of World Income Distribution,"

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"However, by the measure that best reflects people's true welfare (i.e., the measure based on lining up all households in the world according to their income, standardized for their local purchasing power), inequality is probably not rising."

source...
http://www.globalpolicy.org/globaliz/econ/2002/05silly.htm

typical viewpoint of the neoLiberals... they don't even see a problem and shoot theres no turning back now, eh ;->

[TacticalPeek]

5. At one time, on Nixon's high value target list.

Tuesday, February 18, 2003
By ELIZABETH MEHREN Los Angeles Times

BOSTON — Even by the standards of the Nixon White House, the plan to blow up Washington’s pre-eminent think tank seemed crazy, presidential counselor John W. Dean III recalled here Monday.

But there was White House aide John Ehrlichman on the phone one day in 1971, telling Dean that “Chuck Colson wants me to firebomb the Brookings (Institution).” Describing the incident Monday to several hundred presidential history junkies at the John F. Kennedy Library and Museum, Dean said he was dumbfounded.

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As for the proposed bombing of the Brookings Institution, Dean said Colson floated the idea as a way to retrieve certain documents Nixon wanted that were housed in the research center not far from the White House. Colson suggested that while firefighters were trying to douse the damage caused by a bomb, White House operatives could rush in and seize the papers.

http://www.johnlacny.com/archives/000067.html



Another chapter in Know Your Government.

[Tinoire]

6. Neo liberal think tank

Listed as right wing by PNAC watchers

http://www.thefourreasons.org/pnac.htm

A little look at their Board of Trustees (for those who care) reveals a mass of CEOs and other impressive business figures, sprinkled with reps from academia, and also including former and current heads of the World Bank.

They banged the drums loudly on fighting the "war against terrorism" and worked closely with other think tanks advocating more military-industrial fleecing of America.

I used to have a ton of stuff on them. Bad news trojan horse.

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About the Brookings Institution

The Brookings Institution, whose predecessor was founded in 1918 by Robert Brookings, was probably the first public policy institute in the USA. Currently a right-wing, neoliberal (http://www.disinfopedia.org/wiki.phtml?title=Neoliberal), anti-regulation organisation, it has politically veered between the centre and right during its lifetime.

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 Keysian 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.

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http://www.disinfopedia.org/wiki.phtml/Brookings_Institution