The Institute for SocioEconomic Studies (ISES) is a nonprofit, nonpartisan operating foundation established in 1974 by Leonard Greene.

Our mission is to provide a national forum for innovative insights and solutions bearing on a wide variety of socioeconomic issues, with the goal of enhancing opportunity and improving quality of life. 

The Institute places a premium on objectivity and credibility in examining topical issues that include economic, energy, health care, tax, and welfare policy. The Institute's solutions seek to leverage market forces, encourage fiscal accountability, and promote or develop incentives for earning, saving, and investing. 

These aims are pursued through research papers, opinion pieces, seminars, conferences, and special initiatives targeted to members of Congress, key Congressional staff members, and Executive Branch policy makers, along with the news media, business, academic, and public policy communities.

 


INSTITUTE FORUM ON
“THE LEGACY OF LEONARD GREENE”
On Friday, February 27, the Institute presented a roundtable discussion on
“The Legacy of Leonard Greene”
at the Eighth Congress of the U.S. Basic Income Guarantee Network,
held at the Sheraton New York Hotel in New York City.

The session was introduced and moderated by Allan Ostergren, Director of
the Institute, with further remarks by Karl Widerquist of USBIG, and
included presentations by James Bryan of Manhattanville College,
Irwin Garfinkel of Columbia University, Don Sutherland of the Institute,
and Naomi Lopez Bauman, public policy consultant

For further details on the BIG Congress, please see: http://www.usbig.net/


 

The Legacy of Leonard Greene
Allan Ostergren
Director, Institute for SocioEconomic Studies

BIG Annual Convention 2009

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Economic Turmoil: A New Opportunity to Examine a
National Tax Rebate

Donald Sutherland
Research Fellow, Institute for SocioEconomic Studies


Eighth Congress of the U.S. Basic Income Guarantee Network
February 27, 2009


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  In Memoriam
 

Leonard GreeneThe Board and staff of the Institute for SocioEconomic Studies are deeply saddened to announce the death of Leonard Michael Greene, the Institute’s founder and first president, on November 30, 2006.
His energy, vision, humanitarian focus, and above all, his curiosity and enthusiasm will be greatly missed.
A dynamic leader and a radically innovative thinker, Leonard Greene was an inspiration to us all.

 

New York Times Obituary of Leonard Greene
Washington Post Obituary of Leonard Greene
 
  What's New
 


Monetary Policy and Real Estate Bubbles
by Donald Sutherland
February 11, 2009

The collapse of the U.S. housing bubble, and the severe credit crunch and significant recession that followed, have renewed debate about a possible role for monetary policy in preempting such bubbles. The evolution of a growing real estate futures market and development of new policy tools could permit the Federal Reserve to intervene in reducing the risk of the emergence of housing bubbles.

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Is Deflation On The Horizon?
by Donald Sutherland
October 30, 2008

An examination of three major cases of deflation suggests that while the United States is not presently at imminent risk of destructive deflation, nevertheless there is a growing risk that we will suffer a bout of at least mild deflation.

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- Acclaimed Book Offers Insights into Creative Process.
 


INVENTORSHIP

The Art of Innovation

by Leonard M. Greene
ISES President and Founder

From the Publisher
John Wiley & Sons, Inc.


A fascinating volume on becoming both innovative and
inventive, Inventorship combines the best traits of innovators and inventors. Leonard Greene -- inventor of the lifesaving
aircraft stall warning indicator, automatic throttles, and wind
shear detector, and holder of more than 100 patents -- tells
how the techniques inventors use can be the key to
enhancing the creative aspects of everyone’s life. He writes
a lively personal account on how to practice inventorship
to great advantage -- a hot subject now, especially with
the development of e-commerce.

Now available for purchase at: Amazon.com and JP Bookstore

Special Offer for our Supporters

“From this lively and personal account, we learn that we can all
practice inventorship to great advantage -- measured either in
gold or pleasure, or perhaps both!”
--From the Foreword by Walter Cronkite

 
         
     
     
   
   
 
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