Like Krugman or not, tell me he isnt *On Target* here: The rich & powerful are stifling real debate and polluting the truth more than ever: Being wrong is actually a virtue in the eyes of some people, as long as it’s the right kind of wrong. And those people have money and power: — I’d actually forgotten about this, but the Koch brothers tried to install (right-wingnut John) Hinderaker on the board of Cato, which they viewed as insufficiently hackish. Still, think tanks are one thing; this doesn’t happen in the world of scholarship. Oh, wait. Via Daniel Kuehn, we know now that the Kochs sought to control economics hiring at Florida State University. And you have to wonder how much this sort of thing goes on - usually, one suspects, more subtly and implicitly, without as clear a paper trail. In the 1940s moneyed interests made an initially successful effort to block the teaching of Keynesian economics, although Samuelson (who wrote PKs favorite Econ 101 textbook) somehow slipped through. If you don’t think that similar things can happen now, you’re naive — and the rich are richer and more powerful now than they were then.
Posted on: Mon, 15 Sep 2014 17:55:16 +0000
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