Donald J. Boudreaux is a senior fellow at the Mercatus Center at George Mason University, a university-based research center that focuses primarily on economics. Officially, they now accept the science of climate change. However, in a since deleted article published in 2001, the Mercatus Center wrote that “the evidence regarding global warming and human contribution to it is mixed…if a slight warming does occur, historical evidence suggests it is likely to be beneficial. Its current research fellows do not believe that suggested solutions are necessary or will be effective.
Before working at the Mercatus Center, Boudreaux was president of the Foundation for Economic Education, an organization that denies climate change and that has received over $350,000 from Koch Foundations from 2000 to 2017. Additionally, Boudreaux is currently an adjunct scholar at the Cato Institute, a prolific denier of climate change.
Boudreaux’s policy focus is on globalization and trade, law and economics, and antitrust economics. While he himself has not explicitly stated his views on climate change, he has worked for multiple organizations with views that include believing that climate change does not exist, is or will not be a negative event, and that suggested climate change policy is not economically feasible or responsible.
Rothschild’s articles are published in The Wall Street Journal and US News & World Report. He has published books called Hypocrites and Half-Wits: A Daily Dose of Sanity from Cafe Hayek and Globalization.
The Mercatus Center is 100% privately funded, largely by individual donations. The Mercatus Center has also received $9,285,500 from Koch Foundations from 1997 to 2012. Charles Koch is a board member emeritus of the Mercatus Center. David Koch was a board member before his death. In 2014 alone, the Mercatus Center received $25,000 in donations from ExxonMobil, and received $260,000 from 2007 to 2014.
See also:
Mercatus Center at George Mason University
David M. Rothschild
Koch Foundations
Climate of Denial