Most of our educational efforts are carried on through our publications, which we seek to distribute to as many readers as possible. To this end, we try to keep the costs of our published works low. They have neither slick covers nor patronizing illustrations found in many financial publications that sell for many times the price.

Our publications contain very little wasted space and much substance. And because our readers may have little prior acquaintance with the technical aspects of the subject under consideration, as an aid to understanding we supplement our writing with clear graphics.

Research Roundup

Despite the conventional wisdom that modern day professional economic research is esoteric, highly technical, obtuse and seemingly impractical, efforts by AIER and other similar organizations to improve the quality of economic discourse, at least professionally, seem to be paying off.

Others are doing good work from which we believe AIER and its readers can continually benefit. Much new material is embodied in articles which are too complicated for many of us. Few people have time to read all of the interesting and important work that is being done, however, even if accessible.

There is more than a passing academic interest in learning about and communicating the vanguard issues in professional economics. Most famously, Professor Walter Oi, using sophisticated empirical methods for his day, demonstrated in 1967 the extraordinarily high unseen costs of military conscription. Together with Milton Friedman's trenchant criticisms of the draft, this research was largely responsible for the end of conscription in 1973.

We have found that a healthy amount of technical research currently addresses extremely important questions and that an increasing number of economists are willing to address non-academic audiences with the results of their inquiry. Research Roundup is our distillation of the basics of selected studies.