Competitive Enterprise Institute

Center for economic freedomcei's center for economic freedom addresses many of the industries and activities where long-established, and often paternalistic, regulatory policies tend to stymie the creation and evolution of new products and services, technologies, business practices, and work arrangements. Key issue areas include banking and securities regulation, consumer finance, labor law and employment policy, consumer product regulation, and trade policy. These issue areas require our experts to have a firm understanding of existing regulation, regulation's monetary and social costs, and an appreciation of the way technology and innovation present new challenges and prospects for reform.

Center for litigation the central mission of cei's center for law & litigation is to encourage government bodies to comply with the law that governs them. Cei does this through representation of parties in public interest litigation, submission of amicus briefs, policy analysis and advocacy, government records requests, and research support extended to cei's policy colleagues. Issues that the center has focused on in the recent past include corporate average fuel economy standards, consumer appliance energy efficiency standards, the universal service fee, mutual funds fees, and civil forfeiture reform.

Center for energy and environment - cei's center for energy and environment makes the positive case for abundant energy and promotes environmental policies based on economic freedom, property rights, and limited government. The center works to combat the belief that prosperity threatens the environment, that the answer to every environmental challenge is more regulation and that risks can be abolished by limiting human ingenuity.

Center for technology and innovation - cei's center for technology and innovation strives to keep the regulatory state from encroaching upon frontier industries and ensure that 21st century technologies are not shackled by 20th century regulations. The center works to advance market discipline as superior to regulatory intervention; we legitimize market processes and forestall governmental restrictions on wealth creation.

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