There is some truth in allegations by Gunning, Salerno, and Edwards, but
there is also some error, which makes it a case of cherry-picking the
evidence. They claim that economists working for public universities are
ipso-facto biased towards statism. Some outstanding exceptions to that are
James Buchanan, Armen Alchian, along with most of their departments at
George Mason and UCLA. The one Marxist-oriented Dept of Ecs in the U.C.
system, at U.C. Riverside, was administratively lynched and largely replaced
by professors from the business school. Even Berkeley, with some professors
one might tar as "liberal", was beholden to Phoebe Apperson Hearst, and
contains a School of Forestry serving as an arm of a few giant landowning
corporations, and a College of Agriculture that was successfully sued for
biasing its research for giant landowners and against small farmers.

As to "taking the king's shilling", should one not also mention:
	1. Leading private universities funded by robber barons,
historically, and their less visible successors today? Let's see, there were
Rockefeller, Johns Hopkins, Leland Stanford, George Eastman, the Whartons,
.. I recommend a close reading of Upton Sinclair, The Goose Step.
	2. Dozens of modern think tanks and "charitable" foundations
controlled by private persons of great wealth and obvious anti-statist
orientation?
	3. Leading "scholarly" journals funded by #1 above, and edited by
their personnel?

More balanced weighing of the evidence, please!

Mason Gaffney