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Academic economists get big payouts when they help monopolists beat antitrust
Today's links - Academic economists get big payouts when they help monopolists beat antitrust: Big Tobacco's cancer denial playbook is alive and well. - Hey look at this: Delights to delectate.
The economics profession – whose core tenet is "incentive matter" – has made it standard practice for individual researchers and their academic institutions to take massive sums from giant corporations. The point of an independent academia, enshrined in the American Association of University Professors' charter, is to "advance knowledge by the unrestricted research and unfettered discussion of impartial investigators." Picks and Shovels: a sequel to "Red Team Blues," about the heroic era of the PC, Tor Books, February 2025 Unauthorized Bread: a middle-grades graphic novel adapted from my novella about refugees, toasters and DRM, FirstSecond, 2025
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