“In 2007, when the Charles Koch Foundation considered giving millions of dollars to Florida State University’s economics department, the offer came with strings attached.
First, the curriculum it funded must align with the libertarian, deregulatory economic philosophy of Charles Koch, the billionaire industrialist and Republican political bankroller.
Second, the Charles Koch Foundation would at least partially control which faculty members Florida State University hired.
And third, Bruce Benson, a prominent libertarian economic theorist and Florida State University economics department chairman, must stay on another three years as department chairman — even though he told his wife he’d step down in 2009 after one three-year term.”
Read more from The Center For Public Integrity report here: http://www.publicintegrity.org/2014/09/12/15495/koch-foundation-proposal-college-teach-our-curriculum-get-millions
Cenk Uygur (http://www.twitter.com/cenkuygur) host of The Young Turks breaks down the story. How can we fight back against The Koch Brothers money? Tell us what you think in the comment section below.
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But this knowledge is years and years old. Why broach the topic now? Surely you could be tracing some of the skewed behavior of graduates from Fla State after this jerkwad Koch policy went into effect
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