I mentioned the Atlas Network, the organised branch/successor of the Mont Pelerin Society. It has 9 member institutes in Aus/NZ.
https://www.atlasnetwork.org/partner...nd-new-zealand
They have infiltrated or, more benign, convinced university chairs of economics in "western" countries of their superior ideology neoliberalism/neoclassicism.
How deeply rooted the brain washing or, more benign, the focus has become by now to the disadvantage of other theories and concepts has been the subject of a German study in 2016 at all economics university chairs on the balance between neoclassical and other teaching content. The picture here shows the neoclassical part in blue and the alternative part in orange. And that's been going on since I don't know when.
No wonder that even socialist democrats began to follow the yellow brick road into deregulation, enslavement and slashing benefits. It has been implemented as THE truth and without being taught a broader understanding, students and later managers, bankers, politicians can't and won't think out of that box any more.
https://www.pluralowatch.de/media/fi...85_upscale.png
This is not hopeless. It shows us that the "brain washing conspiracy" was successful. So far. But it's a reasonable forecast to say that rationally learned content can be unlearned and amended. Students aren't brainwashed with emotions here. Emotions are powerful. It takes a generation and a half to change emotions of a population (German lesson learned
) . But this is unemotional, rational content. That can be turned by rational discussion of ideas.
That's why I'm still on Facebook. I make it my job to disseminate doubt re the neoclassical mainstream and its symptoms and tools.
The Atlas NEtwork website is particularly helpful. Because guest commenters from "Think Tanks" can usually be quickly identified as fellows from the Atlas Network when they write about some dubious economics study conducted by their institute. Or also, about CO2 emissions and how they allegedly don't contribute to climate change. The majority of the institutes active in that disinformation tactics by Big Oil are members of the Atlas Network.