<p>Your research should have easily shown you that Koch industries donates heavily to the Mercatus Center, a libertarian economic think tank, that is only housed at George Mason. In addition to their political and economic interests, they also donate heavily to the Special Olympics, international poverty reduction campaigns, NOVA, and PBS. Before castigating them as malevolent straw men, bent upon brainwashing, please understand that the world is not as black and white as you seem to presume.</p>
<p>As for the academic discipline of economics, you will be exposed to both free market and Keynesian economic models. Your education will be neither ‘liberal’ or ‘conservative’. You will learn about both approaches and all of those in between. That’s a good thing. </p>