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{{DES | des = A professional, second-generation libertarian selected by the [[Charles and David Koch|Kochs]] as head of the [[George Mason University Economics Department]]. | show=}} | {{DES | des = A professional, second-generation libertarian selected by the [[Charles and David Koch|Kochs]] as head of the [[George Mason University Economics Department]]. | show=}} | ||
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| + | Tyler is brilliant, smug, and a leading Koch tool. His job as an economist seems to be more to maintain a drumbeat of propaganda than to do any research of significance. If anybody has any evidence of the significance of his work (such as status by numbers of citations) I'd be interested to hear it. | ||
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| + | Cowan generally adopts denialist tactics for economic positions his masters oppose; if you cannot refute it legitimately then spread fear, uncertainty, and doubt. (FUD) | ||
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| + | Cowan's (and Tabarrok) run a very popular, high-volume blog "Marginal Revolution". It's full of disgusting shout-outs to the libertarian faithful (such as "Markets in Everything") and links to the latest libertarian propaganda. But some leads from there are very useful or interesting: Cowen is well characterized as an infovore and popularizer. That's his good side. | ||
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| + | "It is difficult to get a man to understand something, when his salary depends upon his not understanding it!" | ||
| + | Upton Sinclair | ||
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