About 1/2 of MIT's revenue comes from federal research contracts, most of that from the Pentagon: http://vpf.mit.edu/site/content/download/21339/71804/file/2011.pdf …
@DougHenwood Ding ding ding ding. That's wwhat I keep thinking abt: cozy relationship bt MIT and the NatSec state.
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@emptywheel@DougHenwood Sure, but universities like MIT already run like a corporations in the colloquial sense; they have a negative -
@zunguzungu@emptywheel For sure. MIT is an extreme case, given its dependence on Pentagon. But they're all corporate to some degree.
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@zunguzungu@emptywheel My alma mater, Yale, is a major union-buster and acts like the subsidiary of a hedge fund much of the time. - 1 more reply
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@emptywheel@doughenwood And yet MIT has probably the most restraint oriented national security program in AmericaThanks. Twitter will use this to make your timeline better. UndoUndo
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