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GMU is heavily funded by the Koch brothers, and is one of the only schools that teaches Austrian economics.
One of the economics professors Tweeted some racist shit and didn't even get a slap on the wrist.
They also have their law school named after Antonin Scalia, if that gives you a metric of how disgusting they are.
They ALSO coordinated a police raid on the houses of two students who were part of Students for Justice in Palestine, and banned them for 4 years without any due process.
Let alone how they have their police surround the pro-israel demonstrations but let the pro-Palestine demonstrators get rocks thrown at them without any intervention.
People like this idiot are a byproduct of what the school represents, yet they want want to be seen as a bastion of progressive thought.
I was at this conference back in my academic days dinner with a cluster of GMU junior faculty and researchers. luckily zero economists, all pretty firmly left politics. the most outspoken one introduced his school as being "the modern proving ground of all academic and scientific corruption in the US. when you look at a map of how right-wing dark money from the Kochs flows through the academy, GMU is always where the process is prototyped and developed for mass replication elsewhere."
he was pretty funny in that deadpan. he had spent the last several years looking at the political economy and critical geography of energy leases or something grim like that in central Appalachia.
It is pitiful, their engineering department also has a pretty direct pipeline to defense contractors / 3-letter agencies.
Was going to say, GMU is as bad as it gets for libertarian econ
Austrian economics is barely more fantastical than mainstream bourgeois economics
Good old George Mason University. If you see anyone with a law or economics degree from there, know that they are very unserious at best. Other departments there aren’t so bad, but the university is located in Raytheon Acres, Virginia, and relies on its tight connections to the feds and warlords for funding and employment for their graduates.
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