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Guy Rolnik and Asher Schechter — “A Slow, Creeping Consolidation of Power by Big Money Over Think Tanks in the United States”

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Following his ouster from New America, antitrust scholar Barry Lynn talks to ProMarket about academic capture and the power of digital platforms like Google. I don't know about "slow and creeping." A lot of influential think tanks were founded by big money to promote ruling elite ideology as a means of influence and propaganda. Coupled with increasing centralization of media control and inroads of influence into eduction, the forum free enquiry and debate is shrinking.ProMarket — The blog of the Stigler Center at the University of Chicago Booth School of Business“A Slow, Creeping Consolidation of Power by Big Money Over Think Tanks in the United States”Guy Rolnik and Asher Schechter

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Following his ouster from New America, antitrust scholar Barry Lynn talks to ProMarket about academic capture and the power of digital platforms like Google.
I don't know about "slow and creeping." A lot of influential think tanks were founded by big money to promote ruling elite ideology as a means of influence and propaganda. Coupled with increasing centralization of media control and inroads of influence into eduction, the forum free enquiry and debate is shrinking.

ProMarket — The blog of the Stigler Center at the University of Chicago Booth School of Business
“A Slow, Creeping Consolidation of Power by Big Money Over Think Tanks in the United States”
Guy Rolnik and Asher Schechter

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