Charles Koch is a James McGill Buchanan acolyte, who holds a pretty dark, anti-democratic view for how to achieve severe libertarian ends http://www.slate.com/articles/life/history/2017/06/james_mcgill_buchanan_s_terrifying_vision_of_society_is_the_intellectual.html …
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The Market Based Management book reads as an attempt to reconcile that cognitive dissonance. It's inspiring in its theoretical ambition and integrity. It's disappointing in its lack of detail.
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In short, I tend to think of them as Hayek lite. Hayek was a little more intellectually honest and willing to compromise or accept messiness in his economics and politics. The Kochs are Plato to Hayek's Aristotle as libertarians.
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Check out Democracy in Chains by Nancy MacLean. I think it might be exactly what you are looking for. Check out my brief review to see if it fits the bill:http://itseemstome.com/2017/11/review-democracy-in-chains …
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A lot of that book is untrue. See reviews by Russ Roberts and others
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I don't know the details of their positions on particular issues, but where I see cognitive dissonance is between their skepticism of central planning by government, on-the-one-hand, and faith in central planning by private entities.
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Dark Money by Jane Meyer. Opinionated but gives good history of their involvement in politics and their ideologies
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Freakonomics interview with one of the brothers was intriguing. Hear it from the horse's mouth...
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The unchallenged supremacy of concentrated capital. This view is shared by the WSJ's editorial page, and nicely accounts for its top enemies (regulation, unions, and trial lawyers)
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