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> Its the market at work It's economics, sure. I don't know what qualifies as a "market" here, though. There aren't standard shares of "lobbying" that people b

• imtringued 9y ago
  Any market in which a company sells products. If lobbying is a cost effective way to increase revenue then it's almost guaranteed that at least one company will engage in lobbying. The companies that don't lobby fall behind in competitiveness and sometimes shutdown and therefore leave the market in which they were selling goods. If you are interested in investing in lobbying then all you need to do is buy shares in companies that engage in lobbying.
• sageikosa 9y ago
  You're thinking investment markets, not philanthropic giving markets. Any think tank is competitively attempting to gain funds to stay afloat. Some do this by lobbying for grants, some by soliciting private donations. But there's a finite amount of capacity to fund think tanks regardless of the source of income. Google can certainly find other think tanks they like better.
  • humanrebar 9y ago
    I can get behind this description. Though it does mean that even the most communist and/or totalitarian governments have internal markets if source-agnostic-budget counts. I'm not sure how people with an anti-capitalist ideological bent would respond to that framing.
    • SerLava 9y ago
      They probably wouldn't like it, but a market is a good way to describe those types of transactional backroom deal.