Buying academic influence predates the modern Koch era.

Evidence

I don’t recall politics being so openly for sale before 1980; but maybe I am being naïve. After all, the Volker Fund paid for Friedrich Hayek’s chair at the University of Chicago in 1950. — Philip Mirowski, Never Let a Serious Crisis Go to Waste, 650

Categorization

• XREF: Challenges the implied novelty of modern donor capture — connects to the reader’s tracing of the thought collective’s historical continuity (Volker Fund to Koch). — connects to: Google’s academic funding bought favorable research and enabled retaliation against critics — Shoshana Zuboff, The Age of Surveillance Capitalism, 404; Monetarism spread through a staged academic-to-policymaker-to-media cascade.; Academic findings directly spawned commercial investment products — Donald MacKenzie, An Engine, Not a Camera: How Financial…, 438

Broader Connections

• Google’s academic funding bought favorable research and enabled retaliation against critics #expands (0.85) — Shoshana Zuboff, The Age of Surveillance Capitalism, 404
• Monetarism spread through a staged academic-to-policymaker-to-media cascade. #corroborates (0.80)
• Academic findings directly spawned commercial investment products #corroborates (0.75) — Donald MacKenzie, An Engine, Not a Camera, 438