Tuesday, September 6, 2011

A look inside the real planning system

Brad Friedman, of the Brad Blog, has written a fascinating article about the Koch brothers. Friedman or one of his associates actually infiltrated a summer 2011 secret Koch-sponsored meeting and has audio recordings of what transpired in the meeting. Read and listen here.

"They [controlling intelligence of large corporations] are not confined by the market.They transcend the market, use the market as an instrument and are the chariot to which society, if not chained, is at least attached. That the modern corporation deploys such power the neoclassical model, of course, denies"-John Kenneth Galbraith,Economics and the Public Purpose,pg 91.

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