The RAND Corporation
Depending on who you ask, the RAND Corporation is either a benevolent non-profit seeking to solve all of society’s ills or a shadowy military-industrial-funded think-tank. Either way, in its years of public policy research it’s produced some really fascinating reports, a lot of which can be downloaded for free on their site. This includes the game-theory classic The Compleat Strategyst, Habitable Planets for Man, and the charmingly dated Towards an Ethics and Etiquette for Electronic Mail (1985).
Some pretty darn interesting people have worked at RAND in the past, including the economist Ken Arrow, game theorist Lloyd Shapley, philosopher/historian/sometime-neocon Francis Fukuyama, and of course the mathematician John Nash.
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