Commentary: No need for a competing Koch-funded institute

The creation of the Marriner S. Eccles Institute for Economics and Quantitative Analysis at the University of Utah raises many concerns.According to the official press release, the new institute aims to support faculty research, learning opportunities for students and the development of quantitative skills with a business economics perspective. The institute’s funding will not support and will operate outside the current economics degree programs provided at the U.A recent editorial in The