On: Economics Has Its Big Tobacco Corruption Moment

[ggm]

What a surprise: FAANG pay economists to snowshoe the regulators office with ostensibly independent academic reasons why the FAANG should not be regulated.

[eesmith → ggm]

I was surprised that Ma Bell managed to change the focus of the Harvard history department.

[ggm → eesmith]

History department not archaeology!

[eesmith → ggm]

.... sure. And not the astronomy department either.

Neither departments studied areas like political economy which would affect Ma Bell's monopoly.