Comments on: Think Tanks around the corner

Question: Think Tanks around the corner

bigmusic — Sun, 16 Apr 2006 17:12:23 -0800

I find it interesting to peruse The Wallace Foundation and The Rand Corporation papers and research, what other "think tank" organizations should I look at?

By: electric_counterpoint

electric_counterpoint — Sun, 16 Apr 2006 17:43:31 -0800

Wikipedia's got a list of think tanks within the US and without. Unless you're interested in research in general, though, you should be more specific about what kind of work you're interested in reading. I'm not familiar with the Wallace Foundation and I know RAND does defense/global politics kinds of things. So, could you be more specific?

By: patr1ck

patr1ck — Sun, 16 Apr 2006 17:44:34 -0800

Maybe too math-y/physics-y, but have you heard of the Perimeter Institute?

By: terrapin

terrapin — Sun, 16 Apr 2006 17:55:36 -0800

Urban Institute and Brookings Institution.

By: rob511

rob511 — Sun, 16 Apr 2006 18:29:45 -0800

To flesh out bigmusic's query, here are links to:
• Wallace, active in arts and education
• RAND, originally formed after WWII focusing on national security and R&D — hence the name — as part of the Douglas Aircraft Co., now independent, nonpartisan and active in a wide range of areas

By: bigmusic

bigmusic — Sun, 16 Apr 2006 18:31:08 -0800

So, could you be more specific?
EC,

Artificial Intelligence, domestic and foreign policy, and Modern Arts.

By: mr_roboto

mr_roboto — Sun, 16 Apr 2006 18:57:34 -0800

The Cato Institute produces stuff from a hard-core old-school libertarian viewpoint.

By: mendel

mendel — Sun, 16 Apr 2006 19:07:24 -0800

There's a dozen well-known Canadian think tanks at the bottom of this page.

By: stratastar

stratastar — Sun, 16 Apr 2006 21:06:27 -0800

Because they're a tiny bit hard to find: Brookings has lots of books online for free
Brookings Institution Press Books

and more books at the Brookings - AEI Joint Center Manuscripts Page

Also there's the Carnegie Endowment for International Peace (CEIP) the Center for Strategic and International Studies (CSIS), the Internation Crisis Group (ICG), the Center for Defense Information, from England the Foreign Policy Centre

Hmm I just punched up 'thinktank' in delicious, and this list came up. Go wild!

By: stratastar

stratastar — Sun, 16 Apr 2006 21:14:57 -0800

And one last one that ties in arts and foreign policy, and interesting one (which just closed unfortunately) the Center for Arts and Culture, they seemed to have worked at the intersection of art and foriegn policy

By: bigmusic

bigmusic — Sun, 16 Apr 2006 21:35:39 -0800

This one on AI seemed kind of interesting.

By: Rumple

Rumple — Sun, 16 Apr 2006 22:40:31 -0800

The Santa Fe Institute has a lot of online publications related to complexity theory and emergence, amongst other things.

By: dagny

dagny — Mon, 17 Apr 2006 00:34:26 -0800

American Enterprise Institute and the Council on Foreign Relations.

By: salvia

salvia — Mon, 17 Apr 2006 08:36:23 -0800

Google Scholar might pull up these sorts of white papers. (Not sure.)