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Koch Foundation To College: We’ll Give You Millions — if You Teach Our Libertarian Ideology

This sto­ry was pub­lished by The Center for Public Integrity, a non­prof­it, non­par­ti­san inves­tiga­tive news orga­ni­za­tion in Washington, D.C.

By Dave Levinthal

1410541751077.cachedIn 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 a sin­gle three-year term.

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4 thoughts on “Koch Foundation To College: We’ll Give You Millions — if You Teach Our Libertarian Ideology”

  1. Benson and oth­ers at FSU delib­er­ate­ly, wil­ful­ly, know­ing took mon­ey from these mon­ey hogs and ene­mies of poor people. 

    The Koch broth­ers are a bunch of greedy bas­tards! I don’t know why wicked peo­ple live so long and good peo­ple die young? 

    Hopefully, the fed­er­al gov­ern­ment would inter­venes and do the nec­es­sary, if the laws allows to do. 

    Knowing the gov­er­nor of Florida, he’s as bad as the “Koch broth­ers” they are mod­ern day crim­i­nals and they know how to rig the sys­tem, so that the long arms of the laws don’t catch up with them.

  2. These are the things the media should be look­ing into but what they are obsessed with is the black man who makes a mis­take . Burn him at the stake, one strike you are out , no redemp­tion. It shows the hypocrisy of these people.

  3. Mike ,

    Its obvi­ous that the Kotch broth­ers and its foun­da­tion wants to per­pet­u­ate a cap­i­tal­ist unchecked free mar­ket sys­tem that ben­e­fits them at the expense of the poor and mar­gin­al­ized . The U.S by now should have learnt from the last eco­nom­ic melt down , what hap­pens when a free mar­ket sys­tem, that is left unchecked can do to its economy . 

    The idea being advo­cat­ed by the Koctch broth­ers , is cer­tain­ly not nov­el as oth­er rich inter­est groups and per­sons in the US have, through lob­by ‚sought to main­tain the sta­tus quo . Do you think their con­tri­bu­tion to polit­i­cal par­ties of choice are altru­is­tic , quite the con­trary , quid pro quo is the order of the day . The real truth is , US is not run by the pres­i­dent , but inter­est groups , that’s the stark real­i­ty . I agree with you Beck that the media should expose these under hand deal­ings , but the prob­lem with that sug­ges­tion , is most of these media hous­es are con­trolled by those who want to main­tain the sta­tus quo or a more extreme inter­pre­ta­tion of it .

    • These broth­ers are worse in their intent . Look them up , they engage in phil­an­thropy, they give mil­lions away to endow­ments , the Arts, all geared to enshrin­ing their lega­cy for posterity.
      There is a far more sin­is­ter side to them how­ev­er. Charles and David Koch inher­it­ed their father’s busi­ness, since then they have tak­en the com­pa­ny now known as Koch Industries to incred­i­ble heights. Koch Industries does over 1 bil­lion in busi­ness annually.They own pret­ty much every­thing from Railways to Lumber, from paper tow­els to food pro­cess­ing. Koch indus­tries pol­lutes our air through it’s fac­to­ries , pol­lutes our water, through it’s endeav­ors in coal, oil, and nat­ur­al gas min­ing , they are some of the largest con­trib­u­tors to the destruc­tion of our plan­et as a result of their hor­ren­dous greed. Their Libertarian views are cen­tered around the notion that Government should have min­i­mal to no role. In effect Government should not be in the busi­ness of enact­ing envi­ron­men­tal laws to pro­tect the 99% from the greed of the 1%.
      They are the face of greed , cor­rup­tion and cor­po­rate excess.

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