Koch brothers’ donation to Catholic University stirs protests

[livingwordunity]

It’s interesting that they did not cite the Koch brothers’ views on social issue which tend to be pretty liberal and contrary to church teaching. I guess it doesn’t suit their needs to say “they support gay marriage which is against church teaching.”

Curious when you think about it.

The Charles Koch Foundation has been kind to my liberty minded student group by providing us books to do a reading group for college students who don’t hear about free market ideas in the classroom. And I go to a Catholic university.

If they are liberal, why are liberals against them? In general, the surest way to know someone is by who their enemies are.

 

[Bubba_Switzler]

No economist starting out aspires to publish in those journals. Not even economists at the University of Chicago. Most journals allow a variety of viewpoints. For example, if I tell you that I published in Land Economics, you would be hard pressed to discern a political bias.

I gave you two examples to illustrate the larger point. And, once again, the issue is not simply “political bias” but competing schools of economic thought.

 

[Havard]

There are conservative economics professors?

I went to Notre Dame in the 90’s… don’t know if things have changed there, but I wasn’t aware of any at ND then.

 

[stinkcat_14]

I gave you two examples to illustrate the larger point. And, once again, the issue is not simply “political bias” but competing schools of economic thought.

The point remains, that when we hire somebody, we rarely know their political views, sometimes we know which school of thought they come from, but when it comes to fields such as game theory or econometrics or applied microeconomics, even the school of thought they subscribe to makes little difference.

 

[Bubba_Switzler]

The point remains, that when we hire somebody, we rarely know their political views, sometimes we know which school of thought they come from, but when it comes to fields such as game theory or econometrics or applied microeconomics, even the school of thought they subscribe to makes little difference.

Game theory, I will grant you, Econometrics is a field eschewed by the Austrian school and favored by Keynesians and Chicogoans. Microeconomics is also influenced by the basic schools of thought I listed, particularly in the area of competition. Macro, needless to say, stands out as the most obvious.

 

[_Abyssinia]

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