The Manhattan Institute works to keep America and its great cities prosperous, safe, and free.

The Manhattan Institute works to keep America and its great cities prosperous, safe, and free.

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Our Policy Areas

Cities

We work to improve the quality of life in America's great cities by fostering competition, entrepreneurship, and fiscal responsibility at the state and local level.

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Culture

We seek to overcome America's cultural divides by offering constructive alternatives to identity politics.

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Economics

We promote prosperity and upward mobility through the advancement of economic freedom, fiscal responsibility, and entrepreneurial innovation.

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Education

We develop policies that increase educational freedom and encourage the creation and expansion of high-performing schools.

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Energy

We champion policies that can enrich American society by making energy more abundant, affordable, reliable, and secure.

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Governance

We defend equality before the law and help improve the quality of governance by promoting transparency, accountability, and evidence-based reforms.

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Health

We develop policy solutions that empower patients and consumers by encouraging competition, transparency, accountability, and innovation.

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Public Safety

We advance creative, evidence-based policy ideas for better policing, public safety, and criminal justice.

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We are always looking for entrepreneurial, self-driven, resourceful, and detail-oriented employees to help put MI's work in the hands of key policymakers and others.

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Projects

Adam Smith Society

SmithSoc is a community of business students and professionals who join together to discuss and debate the contributions of the free market toward advancing human flourishing and opportunity for all.

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Metropolitan Majority

Speaking up for the multiethnic mainstream in America’s metros.

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New York City: Renewed

Gotham will bounce back—and the Manhattan Institute is here to help spark its renaissance.

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Proxy Monitor

Shedding light on the influence of shareholder proposals on corporations.

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Trial Lawyers, Inc.

Highlighting the ramifications of litigation practices and fostering a more transparent and effective legal system.

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