Programs
Educating people on the value of personal freedom, free enterprise, property rights, limited government, and sound money.
Harwood Salons
AIER’s Harwood Salons invite you to explore the ideas that bolster freedom, free markets, sound money, and more. Whether you’re a curious newcomer or a seasoned expert, these events in your community offer a platform for thoughtful, engaging dialogue on the most pressing issues in economics and public policy today.
The structure is designed to promote deeper interactions through salon-style gatherings in cities across the country. We also host larger events under this banner for our most popular speakers. These events provide a unique opportunity for leaders, thinkers, and professionals to connect, share ideas, and explore solutions in an atmosphere that fosters intellectual growth.
By attending, you’ll have the chance to deepen your understanding, share your insights, and build connections with others committed to advancing economic and personal freedom.
Visiting Research Fellowships Program
Visiting research fellowships provide researchers with an opportunity to work on their projects in a productive environment, to present their work and receive feedback, and to expand their intellectual network. These fellowships are intended for full-time professional researchers at all stages of their career. Academics, journalists, and think-tank researchers are all welcome to apply. Advanced doctoral students are considered on a case-by-case basis.
Douglas B. Rogers Essay Competition
The Douglas B. Rogers Essay Competition honors the memory of Douglas B. Rogers, PhD and serves as a means of continuing his legacy of inspiring young minds to seek knowledge through truth. The great works and stream of ideas that formed the underpinnings of our Western Civilization were of great importance to Doug. This competition is designed to invite students to thoughtfully research and opine matters of critical relevance to our society and future governance.
The Douglas B. Rogers Essay Competition is open to all full-time undergraduate students currently enrolled at the time of essay submission in any field of study at a college or university in North America. This annual program invites students to submit essays prompted by a provocative quotation from one of Doug’s favorite economists, political theorists, or philosophers.
Student Programs
Internships
AIER’s Internships are unparalleled professional opportunities for students considering careers in economic research, academia, or the private sector. They provide college students and recent graduates the opportunity to work closely with staff on projects that align with both their interests and AIER’s mission. Whether it’s contributing to scholarly research, policy analysis, or editorial writing, our interns gain invaluable exposure.
Our interns have leveraged their experiences to launch careers at organizations like The World Bank, The Institute for Justice, Deloitte, Morgan Stanley, IBM, and many other research institutes and companies across the world. A significant number of our former interns now teach and research at well-respected universities across the country.
Through a series of workshops, interns learn and practice the essentials of academic and popular writing, various research methods, fundamental and advanced techniques in econometrics, economic analysis through AIER economic indicators and Bloomberg terminal data, blockchain technology and cryptocurrency trading, and more.
Harwood Graduate Colloquia
Harwood Graduate Colloquia are multi-day events intended for graduate students that consist of a combination of interactive discussions and provocative lectures based on pre-assigned readings. Participants are given ample time to interact with each other and prominent scholars.
Our goal is to encourage the next generation of scholars to push the frontiers in their understanding of free markets and classical liberalism, forge new research collaborations, and network with their peers and established scholars from this field.
Graduate Fellowships
AIER’s Graduate Fellowships are transformative, semester-long programs for graduate students who are working in areas that advance AIER’s mission. Successful projects have included; classical liberalism, free market economics, economic liberty, property rights, sound money, and legal institutions that shore up the rights of individuals to be free to the extent that their actions do not impinge on the rights of others.
Each Graduate Fellow is expected to make substantive headway on a project like a dissertation, thesis, or other project that will directly advance their academic studies. Through their fellowship, each Fellow will develop a customized project plan, present their research to AIER staff and visitors, and share their work with the general public through written pieces for AIER’s website.
Each fellow should expect to work closely with AIER’s scholars to build skills, work through research issues, and cultivate professional networks. Fellows will leave AIER having made substantive progress on their project as well as having developed intellectually and professionally.
Graduate Fellowships are awarded through a competitive application process for Fall, Spring, and Summer Semesters. Fellows are expected to arrive on campus for orientation by the start date.
Regional Conferences
AIER hosts regional conferences for like-minded scholars, think-tank leaders, students, business people, and philanthropic foundations.
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