Saving Business: The Origins of Right-Wing Think Tanks

拯救商业：右翼智库的起源

作者: Aaron Swartz | 来源: aaronsw.com | 时间: 2006-06-10

[This is part 5 of an article on the power of right-wing think tanks. See also part one, part two, part three, and part four.]

（本文系探讨右翼智库影响力系列文章之五。参见第一部分、第二部分、第三部分及第四部分。）

Since the goal of these think tanks clearly isn’t to advance knowledge, what are they for? To understand their real goals, we have to look at why they were created. After the tumultuous 1960s led a generation of students to start questioning authority, business decided something had to be done. “The American economic system,” explained Lewis Powell in a 1971 memo for the U.S. Chamber of Commerce, “is under broad attack” from “perfectly respectable elements of society: from the college campus, the pulpit, the media, the intellectual and literary journals, the arts and sciences, and from politicians.”

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