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Manhattan Institute – National Committee for Responsive Philanthropy, 21/03/1991 – http://desmogblog.com/sites/beta.desmogblog.com/files/Special%20Report%20-%20Burgeoning%20Conservative%20Think%20Tanks.pdf
“One of the most influential think tanks is the Manhattan Institute for Policy Research in New York. While not a member of the Madison Group, it is guided by a similar philosophy, which is described by its president, William Hammed, as libertarian. The Institute was founded in I978 by former Reagan CIA director William J. Casey. Early trustees included Edwin J. Feulner, head of Heritage Foundation, J. Peter Grace, T. Boone Pickens, Jr. and William E. Simon, among others. With a budget of S2 million, Manhattan Institute is the most well-established of the conservative think tanks outside Washington, D.C … The Institute perhaps is best known for two of its books that were gospel to the Reagan administration: Wealth and Poverty, by George Gilder and Losing Ground, by Charles Murray. In addition to publishing full-length books, Manhattan Institute issues memos and reports and sponsors forums and workshops. I frequently attend Manhattan Institute meetings, says Peggy Ayers, executive director of the Robert Sterling Clark Foundation. It’s the best place to find out what the conservative right are thinking. They are very smart, intelligent people. Manhattan receives about half of its funding from foundations, including J.M, Bradley, Scaife, Lilly Endowment ($100,000j for general support in 1988) and Sloan ($90.000 in 1989). Corporations contribute a quarter of the Institute’s budget.” (p. 12)

The Powell Memo – Reclaim Democracy – 23/08/1971 – http://www.reclaimdemocracy.org/corporate_accountability/powell_memo_lewis.html
“In 1971, Lewis F. Powell, then a corporate lawyer and member of the boards of 11 corporations, wrote a memo to his friend Eugene Sydnor, Jr., the Director of the U.S. Chamber of Commerce. The memorandum was dated August 23, 1971, two months prior to Powell’s nomination by President Nixon to the U.S. Supreme Court … Though Powell’s memo was not the sole influence, the Chamber and corporate activists took his advice to heart and began building a powerful array of institutions designed to shift public attitudes and beliefs over the course of years and decades. The memo influenced or inspired the creation of the Heritage Foundation, the Manhattan Institute, the Cato Institute, Citizens for a Sound Economy, Accuracy in Academe, and other powerful organizations. Their long-term focus began paying off handsomely in the 1980s, in coordination with the Reagan Administration’s «hands-off business” philosophy.”

R. Kent Weaver (1989) – The Changing World of Think Tanks – Political Science & Politics 23:563-578 doi:10.2307/419623 – 01/09/1989 – Governmental Studies Program, The Brookings Institution
“Despite their subnational focus, these institutions sometimes make a national splash: it was the New York City’s Manhattan Institute for Policy Research, for example, that financed Charles Murray’s Losing Ground, perhaps the most influential book published on social policy in this decade.3 Some of the newer think tanks are extremely small-one to ten persons-and are really the personal vehicles of individual entrepreneurs. Many of these small organizations would not exist formally at all were it not for the preference of foundations to fund non-profit organizations rather than individual research.”

Richard Herrnstein and Charles Murray (1994) – Bell Curve: Intelligence and Class Structure in American Life – Simon & Schuster – American Enterprise Institute; Manhattan Institute –
“Reseña del editor: The ability to manipulate information has become the single most important element of success. High intelligence is an increasingly precious raw material. But despite decades of fashionable denial, the overriding and insistent truth about intellectual ability is that it is endowed unequally. In this audio presentation of «The Bell Curve,» author Charles Murray explores the ways that low intelligence, independent of social, economic, or ethnic background, lies at the root of many of our social problems. He also discusses another taboo subject: that intelligence levels differ among ethnic groups. According to the authors, only by facing up to these differences can we accurately assess the nation’s problems and make realistic plans to address them. However, if we accept that there are intelligence differences among groups, we must learn to avoid prejudicial assumptions about any individual of a given group whose intelligence level may be anywhere under the bell curve.”

Robert Kuttner – Comment: Philanthropy and Movements – The American Prospect – 20/06/2002 – http://prospect.org/article/comment-philanthropy-and-movements
“The Manhattan Institute is especially nimble at co-opting liberals, who are regularly invited to its events both as foils and potential converts. How much money, Mone pressed me, would conservatives need to put into city schools for liberals to support vouchers?”

Tom Barry – The Right’s Architecture of Power – IRC Right Web, 22/04/2004 – Policy Director of the Interhemispheric Resource Center (IRC), online at http://www.irc-online.org . He is the founder of Foreign Policy In Focus and directs the IRC’s Right Web project. – http://iviewit.tv/CompanyDocs/grebe1.pdf
“The most potent force in this architecture of power is the package of cultural, economic, political, and military ideologies propagated by the right’s think tanks such as the American Enterprise Institute, Heritage Foundation, Hudson Institute, and Hoover Institution. Less prominent think tanks that advance neoconservative views on foreign policy include the Jamestown Foundation, Foreign Policy Research Institute, and the Manhattan Institute. Also important on the right but situated outside the neoconservative family is the prominent Center for Strategic and International Studies (CSIS). Other less prominent foreign policy think tanks on the right are the Lexington Institute and the Nixon Center.”

Bob Burton – Atlas Economic Research Foundation: the think-tank breeders – PR Watch, 01/09/2004 – http://www.prwatch.org/prwissues/2004Q3/atlas.html
“Briton Antony Fisher founded Atlas as part of his lifelong campaign to influence the «climate of ideas» and combat «creeping socialism.» Atlas credits Fisher with assisting in the early stages of development of several conservative think tanks, including the Manhattan Institute, Pacific Research Institute in San Francisco and Fraser Institute in Vancouver, Canada.”

John Jos. Miller (2005) – A Gift of Freedom: How the John M. Olin Foundation Changed America – Encounter Books – Writer for ‘National Review’ and contributing editor of ‘Philanthropy’ – ISBN-13: 978-1594031175 – 200 Págs.
“The Lay Commission was by no means the John M. Olin Foundation’s only foray into the subject of religion. In 1984, it began supporting the Center on Religion and Society, started by Richard John Neuhaus in Manhattan just as his seminal book ‘The Naked Public Square’ was being published. Neuhaus was a Lutheran minister who had been an antiwar activist in the 1960s, but by the 1980s was a committed neoconservative who believed that faith deserved a central role in democratic life … The book became an enormous success, which Neuhaus attributed in part to the philanthropies that helped finance its marketing.” (p. 123)

John Jos. Miller (2005) – A Gift of Freedom: How the John M. Olin Foundation Changed America – Encounter Books – Writer for ‘National Review’ and contributing editor of ‘Philanthropy’ – ISBN-13: 978-1594031175 – 200 Págs.
“One of his favorite think tanks was the Manhattan Institute, started in the late 1970s by British businessman Antony Fisher, and intellectual entrepreneur involved in founding think tanks in several countries, including the Institute for Economic Affairs in London and the Fraser Institute in Vancouver, British Columbia. His partner in the New York venture was future CIA chief William Casey. Initially, Ed Feulner had agreed to run the new think tank … but the opportunity to become president of the Heritage Foundation presented itself and he decided to accept the job instead. So the Manhattan Institute slipped into the hands of William Hammett, a brilliant but mercurial libertarian who became a prominent impresario of ideas. One of the organization’s early successes was George Gilder’s book on supply-side economics, Wealth and Poverty. It became a bestseller in 1981 and was often described as a handbook of Reaganomics.” (p. 124)

John Jos. Miller (2005) – A Gift of Freedom: How the John M. Olin Foundation Changed America – Encounter Books – Writer for ‘National Review’ and contributing editor of ‘Philanthropy’ – ISBN-13: 978-1594031175 – 200 Págs.
“The most significant single gift to the Manhattan Institute may have been a $25,000 award in support of a book on welfare policy by an obscure social scientist named Charles Murray, who wrote an article for The Public Interest that caught Hammett’s eye … Hammett proposed that Murray turn his article into something longer, Murray accepted, and the partnership resulted in a landmark book, Losing Ground: American Social Policy, 1950-1980 … Rather than taking a perverse delight in the failure of government to alleviate the suffering of the poor, it approached the subject with heartfelt regret and unyielding resolve. ‘When [social policy] reforms finally do occur, they will happen not because stingy people have won, but because generous people have stopped kidding themselves’, wrote Murray.” (p. 125)

John Jos. Miller (2005) – A Gift of Freedom: How the John M. Olin Foundation Changed America – Encounter Books – Writer for ‘National Review’ and contributing editor of ‘Philanthropy’ – ISBN-13: 978-1594031175 – 200 Págs.
“The Center for the Study of Popular Culture, headed by David Horowitz in Los Angeles, received more the $2 million for its campus activism. Its most noteworthy initiative focused on higher education was an ‘Academic Bill of Rights’, which aimed to bring more intellectual diversity to colleges and universities. Another favorite recipient of the fopundation’s grants was the Center for Equal Opportunity which under the leadership of Linda Chavez had been an John M. Olin Fellow at the Manhattan Institute, where she wrote Out of the Barrio, her book on Hispanic assimilation.” (p. 161,162)

John J. Miller – Freedom’s Mr. Moneybags – National Review, 10/11/2005 – http://www.nationalreview.com/interrogatory/miller200511100823.asp
“Lopez: What did the Olin Foundation make possible, when you consider other big conservative successes? – Miller: First and foremost, the foundation helped create what its longtime president William E. Simon called the “counterintelligentsia”–a group of scholars and activists who provided a balance to the liberals who have dominated the universities, the media, and the nonprofit world. When conservatism was still emerging from the intellectual ghetto, this was a critically important task, and this list of the foundation’s beneficiaries is incredibly long. Prominent groups include the American Enterprise Institute, the Center for Individual Rights, the Heritage Foundation, the Hoover Institution, the Intercollegiate Studies Institute, the Manhattan Institute, the National Association of Scholars, The New Criterion, and the Philanthropy Roundtable. And lots of individuals as well: Linda Chavez, Dinesh D’Souza, Milton Friedman, Robert George, Owen Harries, Samuel Huntington, Irving Kristol, Henry Manne, Harvey Mansfield, Father Richard John Neuhaus, Michael Novak, and George Stigler. And if we’re going to isolate categories of giving, the foundation was especially important to the law-and-economics movement–a school of thought, born at the University of Chicago, which insists that legal rules have economic consequences. The foundation sank more than $68 million into law and economics, and because of this it had a big impact on legal scholarship, the training of lawyers, and judicial behavior.»

George Monbiot – Smoke in our eyes – The Guardian – 27/09/2006 – http://www.guardian.co.uk/commentisfree/2006/sep/27/post437/print – autores «Fair enough. The trouble is that this man works for the Manhattan Institute, which is funded, among others, by the tobacco company Philip Morris. His interest was not declared. You can see a Philip Morris accounts sheet showing a payment to the Institute here (pdf) – you’ll have to go to page 15. There are plenty more documents in the tobacco archives detailing its advocacy for the cigarette industry.»

Wiki – George Gilder – Sourcewatch – 20/07/2007 – http://www.sourcewatch.org/index.php/George_Gilder – autores “George Gilder, «Editor in Chief of Gilder Technology Report, is Chairman of Gilder Publishing LLC, located in Great Barrington, Massachusetts. He is also a Senior Fellow at Discovery Institute where he directs Discovery’s program on high technology and public policy … Gilder also served as a speechwriter for several prominent official and candidates, including Nelson Rockefeller, George Romney, and Richard Nixon. In the 1970s, as an independent researcher and writer, Mr. Gilder began an excursion into the causes of poverty, which resulted in his books Men and Marriage (1972) and Visible Man (1978); and hence, of wealth, which led to his best-selling Wealth and Poverty (1981) … Mr. Gilder pioneered the formulation of supply-side economics when he served as Chairman of the Lehrman Institute’s Economic Roundtable, as Program Director for the Manhattan Institute, and as a frequent contributor to A.B. Laffer’s economic reports and the editorial page of The Wall Street Journal,. In the 1980s he also consulted leaders of America’s high technology businesses. According to a study of presidential speeches, Mr. Gilder was President Reagan’s most frequently quoted living author. In 1986, President Reagan gave George Gilder the White House Award for Entrepreneurial Excellence. «In 1986 Gilder was made a Fellow of the International Engineering Consortium … Mr. Gilder is a contributing editor of Forbes magazine and a frequent writer for The Economist, The American Spectator, the Harvard Business Review, The Wall Street Journal, and other publications. He lives in Tyringham, Massachusetts, in the Berkshire Mountains, where he is an active churchman, sometime runner, and with his wife Nini, parent of four children.» [1] Advisory Board, The Independent Institute/Personnel Economic Policy Council, Club for Growth ”

Richard W. Behan – Movement Conservatism – Progressive Trail – 09/08/2007 – http://www.sourcewatch.org/index.php?title=Movement_Conservatism – autores “The Heritage Foundation is the largest and best financed beneficiary, but many others are familiar. The American Enterprise Institute, the Cato Institute, the Manhattan Institute, Citizens for a Sound Economy, the National Association of Scholars, Accuracy in Academe, the Media Research Center, and Accuracy in Media are prominent on the national level. Less well known are hundreds of «free market» cells scattered nationwide, all funded by these few foundations. (One such is F.R.E.E._the Foundation for Research in Economics and the Environment. It provides week-long indoctrinations into «free market» ideology, at luxury resorts near its home in Bozeman, Montana.. The invited participants, with all expenses paid by F.R.E.E., are federal judges.) The top 20 conservative think tanks spend about $150 million a year, but not on short-term projects. Coordinated by an umbrella group, the Philanthropy Roundtable, they concentrate on a long-term ideological program: sustaining and expanding the free-market paradigm, and enshrining it in public thought, action, and policy.”

Wiki – John M. Olin Foundation – Wikipedia – 02/06/2008 – http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/John_M._Olin_Foundation – autores “Because the Foundation has dissolved, information is no longer available from the Foundation Directory. However, SourceWatch reported the following: In 2001, the Foundation expended $20,482,961 to fund right-wing think tanks including the American Enterprise Institute (AEI), the Brookings Institution, the Center for Strategic and International Studies (CSIS), the Claremont Institute for the Study of Statesmanship and Political Philosophy, the Council on Foreign Relations (CFR), the Heritage Foundation, the Hoover Institution on War, Revolution and Peace, the Hudson Institute, the Independent Women’s Forum, the Paul H. Nitze School of Advanced International Studies (SAIS) at Johns Hopkins University, the Manhattan Institute for Public Policy Research, and the Project for the New American Century (PNAC). «The Foundation also gives large sums of money to promote conservative programs in the country’s most prestigious colleges and universities.»

Philip Mirowski (2008) – The Rise of the Dedicated Natural Science Think Tank – The Social Science Research Council – 01/07/2008 – University of Notre Dame – http://www.ssrc.org/workspace/images/crm/new_publication_3/%7Beee91c8f-ac35-de11-afac-001cc477ec70%7D.pdf – autores “At first the practice started small, but again under the example of the neoliberal thought collective, whole rafts of think tanks, ‘Institutes’ and labs were founded to carry out various components of the program. Among the most significant were the George Marshall Institute, The Annapolis Center, the Competitive Enterprise Institute, the Center for Science and Public Policy, junkscience.com, the Manhattan Institute… These structures, in conjunction with a few smaller centers founded within universities, by the 1970s began to form a parallel scientific universe, a whole mirror world of white papers and dubious fact sheets and fake journal publications explicitly constructed to mimic academic scientific output while keeping the original funding and motivations obscure … The 1990s were a period of lush growth of dedicated natural science think tanks, especially thanks to the large sums of money being spent to call into question global warming.”

Curtis A. Moore (2008) – Milking the Cash Cow – Curtis A. Moore – 01/10/2008 – Basel Action Network – Former counsel to the U.S. Senate Committee on Environment and Public Works from 1978 to 1989 – http://curtismoore.files.wordpress.com/2008/10/milking-the-cash-cow.pdf – autores “It is unnecessary to go to either Forbes or CEI to learn his views on global warming. He is an “expert” with the Manhattan Institute9 and the Heartland Institute,10 head of the Cooler Heads Coalition,11 whose members include 60 Plus Association, The Advancement of Sound Science Coalition (junkscience.com), Alexis de Tocqueville Institution, Americans for Tax Reform, Association of Concerned Taxpayers, Atlas Economic Research Foundation, Capital Research Center, Citizens Against Government Waste, Citizens for a Sound Economy, Committee For A Constructive Tomorrow, Competitive Enterprise Institute, Consumer Alert, Defenders of Property Rights, Foundation for American Liberty, Frontiers of Freedom, Fund for a New Generation, The Heartland Institute, National Center for Policy Analysis, National Center for Public Policy Research, Political Economy Research Center, Public Interest Institute, Small Business Survival Committee, United Seniors Association, and Women for Tax Reform.”

Curtis A. Moore (2008) – The Echo Chamber: A Lot of Noise, But Only One Voice – Curtis A. Moore – 01/10/2008 – Basel Action Network – Former counsel to the U.S. Senate Committee on Environment and Public Works from 1978 to 1989 – http://curtismoore.files.wordpress.com/2008/10/the-echo-chamber.pdf – autores “Their messages are not, however, single-play records. One will speak, the message will be repeated by others and then even more until the caterwauling is almost deafening, a massive echo chamber extolling the virtues of free enterprise and the “market.” For example, in December, 2006, Myron Ebell of the Competitive Enterprise Institute (CEI) wrote “Love Global Warming,” which appeared in Forbes magazine,7 extolling the benefits of global warming: … It is unnecessary to go to either Forbes or CEI to learn his views on global warming. He is an “expert” with the Manhattan Institute9 and the Heartland Institute,10 head of the Cooler Heads Coalition,11 whose members include 60 Plus Association, The Advancement of Sound Science Coalition (junkscience.com), Alexis de Tocqueville Institution, Americans for Tax Reform, Association of Concerned Taxpayers, Atlas Economic Research Foundation, Capital Research Center, Citizens Against Government Waste, Citizens for a Sound Economy, Committee For A Constructive Tomorrow, Competitive Enterprise Institute, Consumer Alert, Defenders of Property Rights, Foundation for American Liberty, Frontiers of Freedom, Fund for a New Generation, The Heartland Institute, National Center for Policy Analysis, National Center” for Public Policy Research, Political Economy Research Center, Public Interest Institute, Small Business Survival Committee, United Seniors Association, and Women for Tax Reform.12

Wiki – John M. Olin Foundation – Wikipedia – 06/09/2009 – http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/John_M._Olin_Foundation – autores “Because the Foundation has dissolved, information is no longer available from the Foundation Directory. However, SourceWatch reported the following: In 2001, the Foundation expended $20,482,961 to fund right-wing think tanks including the American Enterprise Institute (AEI), the Brookings Institution, the Center for Strategic and International Studies (CSIS), the Claremont Institute for the Study of Statesmanship and Political Philosophy, the Council on Foreign Relations (CFR), the Heritage Foundation, the Hoover Institution on War, Revolution and Peace, the Hudson Institute, the Independent Women’s Forum, the Paul H. Nitze School of Advanced International Studies (SAIS) at Johns Hopkins University, the Manhattan Institute for Public Policy Research, and the Project for the New American Century (PNAC). «The Foundation also gives large sums of money to promote conservative programs in the country’s most prestigious colleges and universities.»

Greenpeace – Koch Industries: Secretly Funding the Climate Denial Machine – Greenpeace USA – 01/03/2010 – http://www.greenpeace.org/usa/campaigns/global-warming-and-energy/polluterwatch/koch-industries/ – autores «The Manhattan Institute: $800,000 received from Koch foundations 2005–2008 – The Institute publishes climate science denials163 and has hosted Bjorn Lomborg164, a prominent spokesperson against addressing climate change, at Manhattan Institute events165 several times over the last two years.»

Greenpeace – Koch Industries: Secretly Funding the Climate Denial Machine – Greenpeace USA – 01/03/2010 – http://www.greenpeace.org/usa/campaigns/global-warming-and-energy/polluterwatch/koch-industries/ – autores «Although Koch intentionally stays out of the public eye, it is now playing a quiet but dominant role in a high-profile national policy debate on global warming. Koch Industries has become a financial kingpin of climate science denial and clean energy opposition. This private, out-of-sight corporation is now a partner to Exxon Mobil, the American Petroleum Institute and other donors that support organizations and front-groups opposing progressive clean energy and climate policy. In fact, Koch has out-spent Exxon Mobil in funding these groups in recent years. From 2005 to 2008, Exxon Mobil spent $8.9 million while the Koch Industries-controlled foundations contributed $24.9 million in funding to organizations of the climate denial machine.»

– Jeffrey Bell – Right Web – 05/10/2010 – http://rightweb.irc-online.org/profile/Bell_Jeffrey – autores «Jeffrey Bell is a longtime social conservative activist and contributor to neoconservative outlets like the Weekly Standard. Bell has worked for a number of right-wing pressure groups and is the former president of the Manhattan Institute. Among the groups he has been associated with are the Project for the New American Century, the American Conservative Union, the Ethics and Public Policy Center, the Foundation for Community and Faith-Centered Enterprise (FCFE), and the Council for National Policy. Bell has twice run for the U.S. Senate, in 1978 and 1982 (he lost both times). He worked as a campaign aide to Presidents Ronald Reagan and Richard Nixon.»

– Gleason Family Foundation – Schools Matter – 06/01/2011 – http://www.schoolsmatter.info/2011/01/media-bullpen-gleason-family-foundation.html – autores «For interested readers, here’s a list of the edu-advocacy orgs they’ve supported over the years: Alliance for School Choice; American Enterprise Institute; BAEO; Cato Institute; Center for Education Reform; Center for Union Facts; Coalition for Educational Freedom; Heartland Institute; Heritage Foundation; Institute for Justice (libertarian); Manhattan Institute for Policy Research; Milton and Rose Friedman; Foundation NCTQ; Pacific Research Institute; Philanthropy Roundtable; School Choice Conference ($305,002 in 2006 – Cabo San Lucas, Mexico); School Choice Wisconsin.”

Brendan DeMelle – Manhattan Institute Op-ed Exemplifies Why NY Times Should Require Disclosure of Financial Conflicts – Desmogblog – 16/06/2011 – http://www.desmogblog.com/manhattan-institute-op-ed-exemplifies-why-ny-times-should-require-disclosure-financial-conflicts – autores «Bryce’s argument was quickly debunked by the American Wind Energy Association (AWEA), which points out a number of factual errors and omissions in the Manhattan Institute representative’s piece. AWEA was correct to take on Bryce’s misinformation and set the record straight. Climate Progress also picked apart Bryce’s claims in detail.»

John Mashey – Fake science, fakexperts, funny finances, free of tax – Desmogblog – 14/02/2012 – http://www.desmogblog.com/sites/beta.desmogblog.com/files/fake.pdf – autores “Philanthropy Roundtable Board:324 (@: past affiliations) Michael Grebe Chairman; President /CEO of L&H Bradley Fnd James Pierson Vice-Chairman; President of William E. Simon Fnd; Manhattan Institute Senior Fellow American Spectator Fnd Board; Hoover Instn Board Donors Trust Board, §I.3 John Tyler Secretary; VP/corp scty,Ewing Marion Kauffman Fn325 Don Weinberg Treas.; Chair/EVP of Harry&Jeanette Weinberg Fnd* Ana Thompson Fin Com. Chr;Exec Dir, Charles &Mary Schwab Fnd* Daniel S. Peters Board; President Lovett & Ruth Peters Foundation Jeff D. Sandefer Board; Acton School of Business. (energy investor) Staff includes:326 Adam Myerson President; was VP@ Heritage Foundation 1993-2001. @Wall Street Journal 1979-1983. Donors Capital Chairman of the Board” Shannon Toronto COO; @Ex. Dir Marriner S. Eccles Foundation (UT) Kari Barbic Assoc. Editor, Philanthropy; @ Weekly Standard. Michael Horn Membership Manager; @Charles G. Koch Fnd; @Koch intern at State Policy Network Jo Kwong Dir. Economic Opportunity Programs @Institute for Humane Studies, @Capital Research Center, @ATLAS Patrice Lee Project Mgr, Public Policy; @ C.G. Koch Associate Christopher Levenick Editor-in-Chief, Philanthropy; @ AEI Suzi Marchena Dir. Finance & HR; @Heritage Foundation Lindsay Miller Annual Meeting Director; @ALEC Anthony Penta Dep. Dir K-12 Education Pgms; @Acton in MI, @grad of C. G. Koch Associates Program. Evan Sparks Managing Editor, Philanthropy; @AEI. Amanda Telford Dir of Development; @Frontiers of Freedom. Rachel Verdejo Grant Writer; @ Grove City College B.A. 2008.

Thomas Medvetz (2012) – Think Tanks in America – University of Chicago Press – – – Págs. – https://static1.squarespace.com/static/51289a2fe4b006d82fb7c4ff/t/51859618e4b0b930f1cc00b8/1367709208369/Medvetz.2012.TTIA+prologue.pdf – “Murray quit his job at AIR and applied for positions at the Manhattan Institute, the Heritage Foundation, and the American Enterprise Institute-three of the top conservative think tanks. Each organization would eventually playa critical role in his success. Heritage vice president Burton Yale Pines received Murray’s job application and became the first sponsor of his developing book project. As Murray recalls, «Burt Pines called me in for an interview. I was talking about the way that social programs that I’d evaluated just hadn’t worked … and he gave me, I think, $2,500 to write a monograph that I spent three months writing. It was entitled Safety Nets and the Truly Needy, and that was the forerunner of … the book.» Murray then joined the staff of the Manhattan Institute, where he converted the monograph into Losing Ground, a sweeping historical account of American social policy that sought to show the pernicious effects of government welfare programs.”

– The Council for National Policy – Ministers Best Friend – 07/01/2013 – http://www.ministers-best-friend.com/Council-for-National-Policy.html – autores «The Fieldstead Institute helped to fund the book «Restorers of Hope», written by Amy L. Sherman, which is a PR piece for Welfare Reform’s Charitable Choice [1996] which allows state/federal funding to flow into churches. In a radio interview Sherman said that Christians were involved in writing that section of the legislation. When asked in a phone interview who they were and she said Family Research Council, the Heritage Foundation and the Center for Public Justice. The book doesn’t mention it, but Sherman works part time at the Rockefeller-funded Manhattan Institute for Public Policy [New York] which has cross-over people with both Brookings Institute and Hudson Institute [Diane Ravitch and Chester Finn]. The Manhattan Institute’ Center for Civic Innovation CCI is involved in Education Reform, Welfare Reform as well as the Jeremiah Project.»

Fred Andrews – Wind? Biofuels? Get Real, a Contrarian Says – The New York Times – 07/06/2014 – http://www.nytimes.com/2014/06/08/business/energy-environment/review-of-smaller-faster-lighter-denser-cheaper.html – autores «Robert Bryce, a senior fellow at the Manhattan Institute, a conservative research group, fills that role with zest. The author of four books on oil and energy, Mr. Bryce has written a new book well worth reading, though it will not sit well with those who applauded when Al Gore received the Nobel Peace Prize. The title of his breezy book — “Smaller Faster Lighter Denser Cheaper” — captures the headlong rush of Western culture’s endless drive for ever better technology. It is an extraordinary impulse that has created a world in which more people live longer and more comfortably than ever before.»

Jane Mayer (2016) – Dark Money: The Hidden History of the Billionaires Behind the Rise of the Radical Right – Bantam Dell – – ISBN-13: 978-0385535595 – 464 Págs. – – “Reflecting on this period, James Piereson, a scholar at the Manhattan Institute who became a crucial figure in several conservative foundations, said, «We didn’t have anything when we started in the late 1970s. We had no institutions at all in the mainstream of American political life.» He debunked what he called the liberal misconception that corporations directly funded most of the far-right movement, arguing, «What we did was way too controversial for corporations.» Instead, he said, in the beginning «there were only a small number of foundations,» including the Earhart Foundation, based on an oil fortune, the Smith Richardson Foundation, derived from the cough and cold medicine dynasty, and, most importantly, the various Scaife family foundations.” (p. 73-74)

Jane Mayer (2016) – Dark Money: The Hidden History of the Billionaires Behind the Rise of the Radical Right – Bantam Dell – – ISBN-13: 978-0385535595 – 464 Págs. – – “If Fisher succeeded, Hayek told him, he would change the course of history. To succeed, however, required some deception about the think tank’s true aims. Fisher’s partner in the venture, Oliver Smedley, wrote to Fisher saying that they needed to be «cagey» and disguise their organization as neutral and nonpartisan. Choosing a suitably anodyne name, they founded the grandfather of libertarian think tanks in London, calling it the Institute of Economic Affairs. Smedley wrote that it was «imperative that we should give no indication in our literature that we are working to educate the public along certain lines which might be interpreted as having a political bias. In other words, if we said openly that we were re-teaching the economics of the free market, it might enable our enemies to question the charitableness of our motives.» Fisher would go on to found another 150 or so free-market think tanks around the world, including the Manhattan Institute in New York, to which both Scaife and other conservative philanthropists would become major contributors.” (p. 80)

Jane Mayer (2016) – Dark Money: The Hidden History of the Billionaires Behind the Rise of the Radical Right – Bantam Dell – – ISBN-13: 978-0385535595 – 464 Págs. – – “Fisher’s early collaborator in founding the Manhattan Institute was William Casey, the Wall Street financier and future director of the CIA. The early think tank was not a spy operation, but it was funded by wealthy men who had no objections to using pretexts and disinformation in the service of what they regarded as a noble cause. In fact, Scaife during this period was simultaneously funding a CIA front group.” (p. 80)

Jane Mayer (2016) – Dark Money: The Hidden History of the Billionaires Behind the Rise of the Radical Right – Bantam Dell – – ISBN-13: 978-0385535595 – 464 Págs. – – “By the early 1980s, a list of the Heritage Foundation’s sponsors found in the private papers of one of its early supporters, Clare Boothe Luce, is crammed with Fortune 500 companies. Amoco, Amway, Boeing, Chase Manhattan Bank, Chevron, Dow Chemical, Exxon, General Electric, General Motors, Mesa Petroleum, Mobil Oil, Pfizer, Philip Morris, Procter & Gamble, R. J. Reynolds, Searle, Sears, Roebuck, SmithKline Beckman, Union Carbide, and Union Pacific were all by then paying the think tank’s bills—while the think tank was promoting their agendas.” (p. 88-89)

Jane Mayer (2016) – Dark Money: The Hidden History of the Billionaires Behind the Rise of the Radical Right – Bantam Dell – – ISBN-13: 978-0385535595 – 464 Págs. – – “The anointed scholars were good ideological warriors but «rarely great scholars,» he wrote. For instance, Joyce stuck with Murray in the face of growing controversy over his 1994 book, The Bell Curve, which correlated race and low IQ scores to argue that blacks were less likely than whites to join the «cognitive elite,» and was loudly and convincingly discredited. The Manhattan Institute fired Murray over the controversial project. «They didn’t want the grief,» says Murray. But Joyce reportedly kept an estimated $1 million in grants flowing to Murray, who decamped to the American Enterprise Institute.” (p. 113-114)

Jane Mayer (2016) – Dark Money: The Hidden History of the Billionaires Behind the Rise of the Radical Right – Bantam Dell – – ISBN-13: 978-0385535595 – 464 Págs. – – “Within hours, another Web site called TaxDayTeaParty.com appeared on the Internet, spreading the rebellion under the Tea Party label. Its domain name was registered by Eric Odom, a young member of the Libertarian Party of Illinois who lived in Chicago. Odom had been working until recently for an organization called the Sam Adams Alliance, whose chief executive had long and close ties to the Kochs. The strange story of the Sam Adams Alliance was yet another demonstration of the way that years of private funding by a few wealthy ideologues had created an underground political infrastructure … The founder of the Sam Adams Alliance, according to one account, was a balding, publicity-shy Brooklyn-born real estate tycoon named Howard Rich. Known to friend and foe as Howie, Rich had also been involved in numerous far-flung political ventures with the Kochs. Impressed early by the writings of Hayek and Milton Friedman, he became a tireless supporter of long-shot libertarian causes while amassing a fortune buying apartment buildings in Manhattan, Texas, and North Carolina. Both O’Keefe and Rich served on the Cato Institute’s board of directors with David Koch. They had years’ worth of ties, as well as ups and downs, with Charles Koch as well. Relations were good enough that the Institute for Humane Studies at George Mason University, whose board Charles Koch chaired, placed some of its thirty or so chosen Charles G. Koch fellows in summer internships with the Sam Adams Alliance.” (p. 176,177)

Jane Mayer (2016) – Dark Money: The Hidden History of the Billionaires Behind the Rise of the Radical Right – Bantam Dell – – ISBN-13: 978-0385535595 – 464 Págs. – – “The hedge fund manager Paul Singer, chairman of the Manhattan Institute and a major contributor to the Republican Party, didn’t attend, but his close aide Annie Dickerson appeared on his behalf. Singer’s company, Elliott Management, had a unique niche in the financial world. It bought the distressed debt of bankrupt companies and countries and then demanded to be paid in full or, if necessary, took them to court. Critics had called the tactic immoral particularly when applied to impoverished countries, castigating him as a «vulture capitalist» who profited off poverty, but Singer had accumulated a fortune estimated at $ 900 million from the practice.” (p. 256)

Jane Mayer (2016) – Dark Money: The Hidden History of the Billionaires Behind the Rise of the Radical Right – Bantam Dell – – ISBN-13: 978-0385535595 – 464 Págs. – – “But the spectacle of the Speaker of the House, who was among the most powerful elected officials in the country, third in line in the order of presidential succession, traveling to the Manhattan office of a billionaire businessman to ask for his help in an internecine congressional fight captures just how far the Republican Party’s fulcrum of power had shifted toward the outside donors by 2011.” (p, 298)

Jane Mayer (2016) – Dark Money: The Hidden History of the Billionaires Behind the Rise of the Radical Right – Bantam Dell – – ISBN-13: 978-0385535595 – 464 Págs. – – “Reflecting on this period, James Piereson, a scholar at the Manhattan Institute who became a crucial figure in several conservative foundations, said, «We didn’t have anything when we started in the late 1970s. We had no institutions at all in the mainstream of American political life.» He debunked what he called the liberal misconception that corporations directly funded most of the far-right movement, arguing, «What we did was way too controversial for corporations.» Instead, he said, in the beginning «there were only a small number of foundations,» including the Earhart Foundation, based on an oil fortune, the Smith Richardson Foundation, derived from the cough and cold medicine dynasty, and, most importantly, the various Scaife family foundations.” (p. 73-74)

– George Gilder, Senior Fellow – Discovery Institute – 02/05/2016 – http://www.discovery.org/p/10 – autores «Mr. Gilder pioneered the formulation of supply-side economics when he served as Chairman of the Lehrman Institute’s Economic Roundtable, as Program Director for the Manhattan Institute, and as a frequent contributor to A.B. Laffer’s economic reports and the editorial page of The Wall Street Journal,. In the 1980s he also consulted leaders of America’s high technology businesses. According to a study of presidential speeches, Mr. Gilder was President Reagan’s most frequently quoted living author. In 1986, President Reagan gave George Gilder the White House Award for Entrepreneurial Excellence. «

Graham Readfearn – How Donald Trump Kingmaker-Billionaires Robert and Rebekah Mercer Have Poured Millions Into Climate Science Denial – Desmogblog – 12/01/2017 – https://www.desmogblog.com/2017/01/12/trump-kingmaker-billionaires-robert-rebekah-mercer-pouring-millions-climate-science-denial – autores “The Manhattan Institute for Policy Research is another group on the receiving end of the Mercers’ generosity, to the tune of more than $1 million since 2011.  The institute’s researchers tend to argue against renewable energy while promoting fossil fuels and underplaying or ignoring the impacts of climate change. Rebekah Mercer recently joined the institute’s board of trustees. The Heritage Foundation is a relative newcomer to the Mercer family’s giving, but the think tank’s positions on energy, political ideology, and climate science fit the pattern perfectly — underplay and misrepresent the science, promote fossil fuels, and push for low government regulations.  Predictably, Rebekah Mercer is a trustee at Heritage, a think tank seen as influential in the Trump camp. The Trump team is drawing heavily from Heritage Foundation staff for its transition teams.  On the EPA “landing team” is Heritage’s David Kreutzer, who claims the recent run of record-breaking hot years globally is nothing unusual. Rebekah Mercer is also on the board of the Moving Picture Institute (MPI), a group that helps finance and distribute movies which, according to its website, “make an impact on people’s understanding of individual rights, limited government, and free markets.”  MPI even has a program to support stand-up comedians who promote this “freedom” ideology in their stand-up routines.”

Wiki – Manhattan Institute for Policy Research – Wikipedia – 25/01/2017 – http://www.sourcewatch.org/index.php/Manhattan_Institute_for_Policy_Research – autores “The Manhattan Institute (MI) is a right-wing 501(c)(3) non-profit think tank founded in 1978 by William J. Casey, who later became President Ronald Reagan’s CIA director.[1] It is an associate member of the State Policy Network. It is actually the direct successor to the International Center for Economic Policy Studies (ICEPS) which was founded by the english chicken-king, Sir Antony Fisher, in 1977. He had previously set up the Institute for Economic Affairs (IEA) in London, and before moving to the USA he had become a principle advisor to Prime Minister Margaret Thatcher. The incorporation documents for ICEPS were signed by the prominent attorney and Wall Street speculator, William J Casey, who also served as the first chairman. Before going on to take over as director of the CIA, be also drew up the founding documents for both the National Review and the National Strategic Information Center where he became director of the NSIC also. [1] According to the Manhattan Institute’s own puff-piece, it is «focused on promoting free-market principles» and has a mission to «develop and disseminate new ideas that foster greater economic choice and individual responsibility.»[2] «The Manhattan Institute concerns itself with such things as ‘welfare reform’ (dismantling social programs), ‘faith-based initiatives’ (blurring the distinction between church and state), and ‘education reform’ (destroying public education),» Kurt Nimmo wrote October 10, 2002, in CounterPunch.[3] It was also recognised as leading the Republican/corporate efforts to destroy Ralph Nader and his supporters, in the 1990s.”

Philip Morris – Tobacco Strategy – Tobacco Documents Bates 2022887066 – 28/03/2017 – http://goo.gl/qMMbFr – autores “Manhattan Institute Worked off-the-record with Manhattan and writer Betsy McCaughey as part of the input to the three-part expose in The New Republic on what the Clinton plan means to you. The first part detailed specifics of the plan. The second part, to be published imminently, will focus on the impact the Clinton bill will have on cities. She will explore why medical education will decline, why teaching hospitals will be driven out of business, why regional health alliances will shift the cost of caring for the poor off the federal budget onto the backs of urban workers and their employers, and why discontinuing Medicaid and enrolling the disadvantaged in HMO’s will fail. Betsy is also working on a comparison of the other proposals, what an «ideal» bill should include, and what kind of reform Congress is likely to give us. As a member of the Publication Committee of City Journal, Manhattan’s award-winning policy quarterly, I am in discussions concerning possible publication of a detailed analysis of the Clinton plan as it impacts New York and New Yorkers.”

Wiki – James Piereson – Wikipedia – 22/01/2018 – https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/James_Piereson – autores “James Piereson is an American conservative scholar … Philanthropy: From 1985 to 2005, he served as Executive Director and Trustee of the John M. Olin Foundation.[1][2][3][4][5] He is President of the William E. Simon Foundation, a grant-giving organization headquartered in New York City.[1][2][3][4][5][6][7] He is a Senior Fellow and serves as Chairman of the Center for the American University at the Manhattan Institute for Policy Research.[1][6][4][5][7][8][9] He also serves as Chairman of the selection committee for the VERITAS Fund for Higher Education, giving grants to selected programs at US colleges and universities.[1][4] Additionally, he is chairman of the selection committee for the Hayek Book Prize awarded by the Manhattan Institute each year.[1] He serves on the Boards of the Pinkerton Foundation, the Thomas W. Smith Foundation, the Center for Individual Rights, the Philanthropy Roundtable (where he served as Chairman from 1995 to 1999), the Foundation for Cultural Review, the American Spectator Foundation, the Hoover Institution at Stanford University, and Donors Trust.[1][2][3][4][5][10][11][12] Additionally, he is a member of the selection committee for the Clare Boothe Luce Program for Women in the Sciences, Medicine, and Engineering.[1][4] He is a member of the grant advisory committee of the Searle Freedom Trust.[1] He is also a member of the Executive Advisory Committee of the William E. Simon Graduate School of Business Administration at the University of Rochester and of the Board of Visitors of the Pepperdine University School of Public Policy.[1][5] He also sits on the Advisory Council of the Henry Salvatori Center for the Study of Individual Freedom at Claremont McKenna College.[1][4] He sits on the publication committees of City Journal and National Affairs.[1][13][14] ”

Justin Mikulka – The Manhattan Institute’s Joke of a Wall Street Journal Op-Ed – Desmogblog – 14/03/2018 – http://www.desmogblog.com/2018/03/14/wall-street-journal-cass-oren-manhattan-institute-climate-scenarios-heat – autores “A new report by Oren Cass of the Manhattan Institute for Policy Research dismisses predictions of the impacts of a warming world with a simple solution: When climate change turns up the heat, people just need to turn on their air conditioners. From his analysis, “Overheated: How Flawed Analyses Overestimate the Costs of Climate Change,” the Wall Street Journal somehow arrived at the following headline for Cass’s recent op-ed: Doomsday Climate Scenarios Are a Joke. It should be noted that Cass is a Harvard-trained lawyer, with a background in political science, not climate science. And his employer, the Manhattan Institute, for years has promoted climate science contrarianism while pushing fossil fuel development. No surprise that the organization is bankrolled by several conservative foundations, including the billionaire Mercer family, major Trump donors and funders of climate denial.  ”

– Think Tank Quickies – Think Tank Watch – 01/04/2018 – http://www.thinktankwatch.com/2018/04/think-tank-quickies-307.html – autores “2005 flashback: War of Ideas: Why mainstream and liberal foundations and the think tanks they support are losing in the war of ideas in American politics (by Andrew Rich). 2007 flashback: Think tank confidential (by AEI’s Christopher DeMuth). 2003 flashback: The corruption of think tanks (by Steven Clemons). 2002 flashback: The role of think tanks in Chinese foreign policy (by He Li). 1999 flashback: The think tank as flack: How Microsoft and other corporations use conservative policy groups (by David Callahan). 1997 flashback: RNC ex-chief details funds for think tank. 1997 flashback: The Manhattan Institute has nudged New York to the right. 2005 flashback: Think tank (USIP) is moving up in the world. 2001 flashback: «Ted Halstead’s New America Foundation Has It All: Money, Brains and Buzz.» 1988 flashback: Think tank (Urban Institute) survives lean times. ”

Wiki – Walton Family Foundation – Sourcewatch – 25/12/2019 – https://www.sourcewatch.org/index.php/Walton_Family_Foundation – autores “According to its 2012 IRS Form 990 filing, the Walton Family Foundation had $581.4 million in revenue, $441.2 million in expenses, and year end assets with a fair market value of $1.999 billion.[4] Notable 2012 Grants[5] $1.7 million to the Alliance for School Choice $325,000 to the Americans for Prosperity Foundation $6.15 million to the California Charter Schools Association 16.9 million to Charter Fund, Inc. $40,000 to the Institute for Humane Studies $525,628 to the Institute for Justice $11.4 million to Teach for America national Ties to Conservative Advocacy Organizations In 2006, the New York Times reported that the Walton Family Foundation had given over $2.5 million to «prominent conservative research groups» over six years.[6] These groups, including the American Enterprise Institute, the Heritage Foundation, and the Manhattan Institute then defended the company in the press and in congressional testimony. ”