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Manhattan Institute for Policy Research

Manhattan Institute for Policy Research

 


What is the Manhattan Institute for Policy Research?

The Manhattan Institute for Policy Research is a conservative American think tank that operates in New York City.  The Institute’s mission is “to develop and disseminate new ideas that foster greater economic choice and individual responsibility.”

Divisions of the Manhattan Institute for Policy Research

Center for the American University

The division for the Center for the American University addresses the state of universities today.  The Center for the American University addresses problems like increasing tuition costs, the lack of intellectual pluralism, and the lack of substantive education.  This division encourages liberal education through the following initiatives: mindingthecampus.com, the VERITAS Fund, the Capitalism Project, and the Adam Smith Society. 

Center for State and Local Leadership

This division presents ideas and publications that can be used in state and local governments to reform public pensions, public education, public spending, and more.  The main subjects pursued by this division included public sector reform, policing, prisoner re-entry, education reform, public housing, infrastructure, immigration, and public services. 

Center for Legal Policy

This division acknowledges the fact that the American litigation system “reduces innovation and investment, lowers safety and well-being, and erodes the risk-taking and personal responsibility essential to our free society.  This division of the Manhattan Institute for Policy Research provides reports and analysis of the litigation industry as a whole, regulation through litigation, judicial selection, and the following specific areas of law: class actions, employment law, medicine, and products liability. 

Center for Medical Progress

This division of the Manhattan Institute for Policy Research stresses the importance of medical progress through free-market institutions and the adoption of policy alternatives to allow for progress.  The division publishes a web magazine that looks at connections between the private sector, biomedical innovation, public policy, and medical progress as a whole.  The following issues are discussed widely by this division: Medicare and Medicaid reform, consumer driven health care, FDA reform, and drug importation/price controls. 

Center for Energy Policy and the Environment

This division focuses intensely on energy supply, economic stability, and national security.  The division recognizes that a huge amount of speculation has centered on sustainability and reaching energy demands in the United States.  The division advocates the use of coal, gas, and nuclear technology. 

Center for New York State Policy

This division focuses on freedom and enterprise in the New York state.  The division focuses on budget solutions, cost-effectiveness in local government and schools, tax issues, and more by issuing reports and conferences for the public, media, and legislative body. 

e21 Economic Policies Division

This division focuses on contemporary economic policies.  Recent material has focused on Medicare, student loans, ObamaCare, taxes, and the entanglement of government and business. 

The Manhattan Institute of Policy Research has generated serious reform in Welfare, Medicare, law enforcement, and education institutions.  Continuing issues addressed by the Manhattan Institute of Policy Research include energy, health care, legal reform, economics, education reform, policing, unions, the FDA, infrastructure, higher education, and much more. 

Source: www.manhattan-institute.org

 

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