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ancianita

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8. You relate an interesting history. Thanks!
Mon Mar 29, 2021, 09:49 PM
Mar 2021

Given how far back your awareness goes, you might like the lengthy story about him that Duke historian Nancy MacLean relates in Democracy In Chains. He hooked up with an economist named Buchanan, and their joint economic and corporate cover for racism took off from the mid-70's onward.

Thanks for the WI link.

Here's one for you -- all the 544 universities whose economics departments he's bought.

https://docs.google.com/spreadsheets/d/12PueWQ-mfDuFfE9kHp8gYrUFPcjwZxsuzhBsu5XRJ5I/edit#gid=0

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