Yes, Sean, you are near the belly of the beast. What is wierd is that I personally like people the people I know who are associated with Mercatus, but their work harms many people by fighting against regulation. Say hi to Wendy Gramm, whom I do not know.
On Thu, Feb 05, 2009 at 10:53:25PM -0600, Sean Andrews wrote: > On Thu, Feb 5, 2009 at 20:35, michael perelman > <[email protected]> wrote: > > With the economy tanking and people having to scramble for good jobs -- here > > is an opportunity too good to be missed: How to set up a right wing think > > tank. > > > > Read this & enjoy. > > > > http://www.archive.org/details/HowToStartARightWingThinkTank > > This group is evidently still around--they've moved from about a half > mile from the George Mason Campus in Fairfax--25 years ago--to about a > half mile from the George Mason University campus in Arlington (where > the fancy Mercatus Center http://www.mercatus.org/Home.aspx is > located). > > http://atlasnetwork.org/about/contact-us-directions/ > > The Mercatus Center is also allegedly funded privately, but a little > less than half (21 out of 49) of the scholars it employs get fat > paychecks from the state of Virginia via GMU on top of whatever they > get from Mercatus. Ah state-funded libertarianism! > > How much do their scholars get from the state? Altogether for 21 > scholars, is $3,101,673. Not bad for government work. > > you can do the calculations here: http://www.roblink.com/ > Or if you want to check my work let me know and I'll show you the list > I compiled > > s > _______________________________________________ > pen-l mailing list > [email protected] > https://lists.csuchico.edu/mailman/listinfo/pen-l -- Michael Perelman Economics Department California State University Chico, CA 95929 Tel. 530-898-5321 E-Mail michael at ecst.csuchico.edu michaelperelman.wordpress.com _______________________________________________ pen-l mailing list [email protected] https://lists.csuchico.edu/mailman/listinfo/pen-l
