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J'ai commencé la lecture de «The Big Myth», une critique du fondamentalisme du libre marché par les auteurs de «Merchands de doute». Les premiers chapitres abordent l'opposition aux lois interdisant le travail des mineurs. On peut y trouver de nombreux parallèles avec la situation géopolitique actuelle. #lecture #climat #capitalisme #transitionecologique #justicesociale #thebigmyth
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So proud that Naomi Oreskes is now Doctore Honoris Causa of my university.
@ULBruxelles
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"Discourse Magazine" is Koch-funded Libertarian propaganda
For those unfamiliar with Discourse Magazine, it is a new-ish (~2020 launch) publication of the Mercatus Center at George Mason University, both of which are strongly Libertarian, highly ideological, free-market fundamentalist, strongly aligned with the Koch family and Koch Industries, who provide major financial support and whose head, Charles Koch, serves on the board.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mercatus_Center
https://www.discoursemagazine.com/about/
These are part of the larger global Atlas Network of Libertarian "think tanks" (that is, propaganda mills) founded in 1981 by Antony Fisher:
https://www.sourcewatch.org/index.php?title=Atlas_Network
And are an outgrowth of the Mont Pelerin Society of "free-market' economists and propagandists.
https://www.sourcewatch.org/index.php?title=Mont_Pelerin_Society
Excellent investigations of these groups include
Jane Mayer, Dark Money: on political influence by the Kochs and others. https://archive.org/details/darkmoneyhiddenh0000maye_k2o0
Naomi Oreskes and Eric Conway, Merchants of Doubt: on climate disinformation by the Kochs and others.https://archive.org/details/merchantsofdoubt00ores
Oreskes and Conway, The Big Myth: on how "free markets" were sold as an ideological fable, by the Kochs and others. https://www.bloomsbury.com/us/big-myth-9781635573572/
I'd run across Discover Magazine via a recent HN submission, having been previously unaware of it: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=36856215
Edits: Markdown / reordering descr/links.
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