Giving and Generating Income

The gifts described below allow you to give to the American Institute for Economic Research while generating income for yourself and your family.

Charitable Remainder Unitrust

A charitable remainder unitrust can help you maintain or increase your income while making a significant gift to the American Institute for Economic Research. If your unitrust grows, your payments will grow too, providing a hedge against inflation.

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Charitable Flip Unitrust

A flip unitrust can be an excellent way for you to give an asset that may take time to sell and receive substantial payments for life once the flip unitrust sells your asset. You might also be interested in using a flip unitrust to make a gift now that will supplement your income in the future, such as when you retire.

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Pooled Income Fund

A pooled income fund is a trust that is established and maintained by AIER. Your gift of cash or securities is combined with other gifts in the fund and you receive a tax deduction plus income for life.

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Economics & Economic Freedom

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Trump’s Subsidized IVF Spells Disaster

“Trump’s plan is a disaster from the perspective of cost, incentives, and value neutrality.” ~Vanessa Brown Calder

Vanessa Brown Calder
The Religious Idiocy of ‘Limitarianism’

“To pretend that you can have all the riches of the modern world and eliminate the ability for anyone to become wealthy is a sure sign of someone who has no understanding of how all this wealth was generated in the first place.” ~James Hartley

James Hartley
Harwood Economic Review: Dispelling Economic Myths

Our latest issue explores why economic misconceptions persist and the vigilance required to counter them.

AIER
Supermarket Merger Muddle

“Traditional supermarkets have been losing a great deal of market share to those excluded from that definition.” ~Gary Galles

Gary Galles

Defending Freedom, Combating Collectivism

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Civil Discourse and Political Reality

“It is one thing to dislike someone’s policies and argue against them in a civil discourse, discussing the merits and consequences of their proposals. But there is no place to demonize and so diminish the character of a candidate.” ~Will Sellers

Will Sellers
Misunderstanding Poverty: a Review of ‘Second Class’

“Frédéric Bastiat famously warned against economic sophisms, the facile myths around free trade and economic policy… Alas, Batya Ungar-Sargon is not even a bad economist.” ~Nikolai Wenzel

Nikolai Wenzel
The Threats Posed by Environmental, Social, and Governance Policies

This AIER Paper seeks to educate citizens and investors about the substance of ESG and the kinds of problems it has created, providing the interested reader with a variety of sources to study ESG in greater depth.

Paul Mueller
Unbundling Zoning

Will zoning powers inevitably be abused, and would they be reconstituted in some other form if zoning were abolished? Evidence and theory both suggest that private land-use governance could be a non-exclusionary substitute for zoning, but transaction costs in setting up alternatives to zoning are significant.

Jason Sorens

Explainers

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Free Market Electricity: A Primer

Free-market electricity rests on time-honored theoretical and evidential foundations. Yet the classical-liberal alternative to heavy-handed regulation has been ignored for more than a century.

Robert Bradley
Understanding Public Debt

Whether at the federal, state, or local level of government, the rate of growth of government debt is unsustainable. Fortunately, solutions are available for all levels of government.

Thomas Savidge