Murray Rothbard

Cato Institute Organizational Profile: 'Libertarian' Cover for Corporate Deregulation Agenda

1987-01-01 00:00:00 +0000 UTC | Importance: 8/10

Comprehensive organizational analysis reveals Cato Institute as mechanism for laundering corporate deregulation agenda as ’libertarian principle.’ Founded in 1977 by Ed Crane, Murray Rothbard, and Charles Koch with $500,000 initial funding from Koch Industries, Cato packages opposition …

Cato Institute Charles Koch Ed Crane Murray Rothbard Peter Ferrara +3 more organizational-profile libertarian-cover corporate-deregulation koch-network social-security-privatization +3 more

William Volker Fund Closes After Financing Chicago School and Mont Pelerin Society

1962-12-31 00:00:00 +0000 UTC | Importance: 7/10

The William Volker Fund closes after serving as the primary libertarian organization with significant funding throughout the 1940s-1950s, having played a key role in developing the modern libertarian movement by financing the Chicago School of economics, the Mont Pelerin Society, and free-market …

William Volker Fund Harold Luhnow Hoover Institution Institute for Humane Studies F.A. Harper +5 more volker-fund chicago-school libertarian-funding corporate-philanthropy hoover-institution