I would like to thank you all for the comments on my query!
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<p>Prof. Marco Antonio Ribas Cavalieri</p>

<p>Departamento de Economia</p>

<p>Programa de P&oacute;s-Gradua&ccedil;&atilde;o em Desenvolvimento Econ&ocirc;mico</p>

<p>Universidade Federal do Paran&aacute; - UFPR</p>

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<strong>De: </strong>&quot;Carol Scotton&quot; &lt;<a href="/cgi-bin/wa?LOGON=A3%3Dind1512%26L%3DAFEEMAIL%26E%3Dquoted-printable%26P%3D174155%26B%3D--%26T%3Dtext%252Fhtml%3B%2520charset%3Dutf-8%26pending%3D" target="_parent" >[log in to unmask]</a>&gt;<br />
<strong>Enviada: </strong>2015/12/07 21:56:06<br />
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<strong>Assunto: </strong> Re: Query on private interests among government mainstream economists<br />
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<div dir="ltr">Hello,
<div>There&#39;s another, much older, example of economists with conflicts of interest influencing policy and opinion.&nbsp; This is the case of removing land as a factor of production. John Bates Clark and Richard T Ely (among others) used their academic positions to bolster opposition to land taxation (as proposed by Henry George 1839-1897).&nbsp; Mason Gaffney, in The Corruption of Economics (1994), examines the role of these men and others in quashing the idea of taxing away the unearned rents of landholders.&nbsp; It is worth looking into.&nbsp; A paper by Brian Czech, &quot;The neoclassical production function as a relic of anti-George politics: Implications for ecological economics&quot; (Ecological Economics 68 (2009) 2193-2197) provides a short summary.</div>

<div>Good luck.</div>

<div>regards/crs</div>
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<div class="gmail_quote">On Mon, Dec 7, 2015 at 12:09 PM, Marco Cavalieri <span dir="ltr">&lt;<a href="<a href="/cgi-bin/wa?LOGON=A3%3Dind1512%26L%3DAFEEMAIL%26E%3Dquoted-printable%26P%3D174155%26B%3D--%26T%3Dtext%252Fhtml%3B%2520charset%3Dutf-8%26pending%3D" target="_parent" >[log in to unmask]</a>" target="_blank"><a href="/cgi-bin/wa?LOGON=A3%3Dind1512%26L%3DAFEEMAIL%26E%3Dquoted-printable%26P%3D174155%26B%3D--%26T%3Dtext%252Fhtml%3B%2520charset%3Dutf-8%26pending%3D" target="_parent" >[log in to unmask]</a></a>&gt;</span> wrote:

<blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin:0 0 0 .8ex;border-left:1px #ccc solid;padding-left:1ex">Dear Bob (if I may),<br />
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Thank you very much. I will contact the author about the theme.&nbsp;<br />
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Best,
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<p>Prof. Marco Antonio Ribas Cavalieri</p>

<p>Departamento de Economia</p>

<p>Programa de P&oacute;s-Gradua&ccedil;&atilde;o em Desenvolvimento Econ&ocirc;mico</p>

<p>Universidade Federal do Paran&aacute; - UFPR</p>

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<strong>De: </strong>&quot;Bob Lucore&quot; &lt;<a href="<a href="/cgi-bin/wa?LOGON=A3%3Dind1512%26L%3DAFEEMAIL%26E%3Dquoted-printable%26P%3D174155%26B%3D--%26T%3Dtext%252Fhtml%3B%2520charset%3Dutf-8%26pending%3D" target="_parent" >[log in to unmask]</a>" target="_blank"><a href="/cgi-bin/wa?LOGON=A3%3Dind1512%26L%3DAFEEMAIL%26E%3Dquoted-printable%26P%3D174155%26B%3D--%26T%3Dtext%252Fhtml%3B%2520charset%3Dutf-8%26pending%3D" target="_parent" >[log in to unmask]</a></a>&gt;<br />
<strong>Enviada: </strong>2015/12/07 15:15:18<br />
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<div class="gmail_default" style="font-family:verdana,sans-serif;font-size:small">Marco--</div>

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<div class="gmail_default" style="font-family:verdana,sans-serif;font-size:small">re Economist conflicts of interest</div>

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<div class="gmail_default" style="font-family:verdana,sans-serif;font-size:small">Jessica Carick_Hagenbarth &amp; Gerald A. Epstein (U. Mass Amherst) had an article in the Cambridge Journal of Economics:</div>

<div class="gmail_default" style="font-family:verdana,sans-serif;font-size:small"><a href="http://cje.oxfordjournals.org/content/36/1/43.full" target="_blank">http://cje.oxfordjournals.org/content/36/1/43.full</a></div>

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<div class="gmail_default" style="font-family:verdana,sans-serif;font-size:small">It might be fruitful to contact Epstein directly:</div>

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<div class="gmail_quote">On Mon, Dec 7, 2015 at 11:00 AM, Marco Cavalieri <span dir="ltr">&lt;<a href="http:<a href="/cgi-bin/wa?LOGON=A3%3Dind1512%26L%3DAFEEMAIL%26E%3Dquoted-printable%26P%3D174155%26B%3D--%26T%3Dtext%252Fhtml%3B%2520charset%3Dutf-8%26pending%3D" target="_parent" >[log in to unmask]</a>" target="_blank"><a href="/cgi-bin/wa?LOGON=A3%3Dind1512%26L%3DAFEEMAIL%26E%3Dquoted-printable%26P%3D174155%26B%3D--%26T%3Dtext%252Fhtml%3B%2520charset%3Dutf-8%26pending%3D" target="_parent" >[log in to unmask]</a></a>&gt;</span> wrote:

<blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin:0px 0px 0px 0.8ex;border-left-width:1px;border-left-color:rgb(204,204,204);border-left-style:solid;padding-left:1ex">Dear AFEErs,<br />
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I am working with political scientists on a paper about how Brazilian mainstream economists - mostly holding PhDs from the American mainstream strongholds, such as Harvard - came to dominate the important positions at the Brazilian Central Bank. This is noticeable because, in contrast, the academic economics in Brazil is very plural. The majority of the mainstream economists who occupied a post at the Brazilian Central Bank have compromising links with private banks and other private institutions.<br />
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It&#39;s an Inside Job.<br />
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I would like to know if any of you could point me to (academic) literature linking mainstream economics and private interests or, at least, (academic) literature pointing to the inside job kind of relationship between economists from the major American mainstream strongholds and the private sector.<br />
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I thank you all in advance.<br />
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Best,&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;
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<p>Prof. Marco Antonio Ribas Cavalieri</p>

<p>Departamento de Economia</p>

<p>Programa de P&oacute;s-Gradua&ccedil;&atilde;o em Desenvolvimento Econ&ocirc;mico</p>

<p>Universidade Federal do Paran&aacute; - UFPR</p>
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