Key Points Read the PDF (text version below): Editor’s Note In 1986, the American Enterprise Institute published The Politics of Industrial Policy, a collection of essays edited by AEI Senior Fellow…
By Jeffrey A. Hart | January 14, 2026
This paper is part of AEI’s Center for Technology, Science, and Energy’s (CTSE) Science, Industry, and the State Project Key Points Executive Summary In the past decade, two compelling changes…
By Derek Scissors | August 25, 2025
Key Points How Does Semiconductor Trade Work? How is it that South Korea—one of the world’s most important makers of the chips critical for goods from cars to computers—imports more…
By Chris Miller | July 25, 2025
Abstract Telecommunications networks have become one of modern society’s critical infrastructures (CIs): things required for everyday life and without which widespread disruption can be expected. Historically, the responsibility for ensuring…
By Bronwyn Howell | May 29, 2025
A survey of perceptions of Artificial Intelligence in 31 countries in 2023 yields significantly less positive perceptions of the new technology in developed western economies than in emerging and non-western…
By Bronwyn Howell | February 28, 2025
Key Points Read the PDF. Executive Summary Generative AI has attracted great attention in the policymaking sphere, including for agency rulemaking. This report compares a final rule drafted by a…
By Connor Raso | January 16, 2025
Key Points Read the PDF.https://www.aei.org/wp-content/uploads/2024/03/A-Choice-of-Law-Alternative-to-Federal-Preemption-of-State-Privacy-Law.pdf?x85095 Introduction A prominent theme in debates about US national privacy legislation is whether federal law should preempt state law. A federal statute could create one…
By Jim Harper | Geoffrey A. Manne | March 15, 2024
Key Points Read the PDF. Congress created the federal Broadband Equity, Access, and Deployment (BEAD) Program, a prominent feature of the Infrastructure Investment and Jobs Act (IIJA),1 to usher areas without…
By Mark Jamison | January 9, 2024