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The New York Times had on September 18, 1999 an article by Joel Brinkley called "‘Unbiased’ Ads for Microsoft Came at a Price". The 'Ads' had the form of a letter signed by 240 academic "experts" and purported to be a scholarly, unbiased view of why the government had gone overboard in its case against the [[Microsoft]]. In reality, according to that article, Microsoft had not only paid for the ads, but was in fact the single largest donor to 'The Independent Institute'. [[David J. Theroux]], the founder and president of this institute, confirmed in his reply that they received money from Microsoft. However, that was ± 8% of their total revenues and he stated that Microsoft was not their largest supporter. Despite [[Jacob Sullum]]'s denail, it later turned out that Microsoft paid $203,217 to 'The Independent Institute' in 1999 which made Microsoft the largest supporter. [http://www.urielw.com/reasonfdn.htm]
[[Richard Vedder]] is Senior Fellow at The Independent Institute and [[Thomas Gale Moore]] is a Member of the Board of Advisors at The Independent Institute. Both were also a members of the 'Academic Advisory Board' for the pro-tobacco junk science report '[[Science, economicsEconomics, and environmental policyEnvironmental Policy: a critical examinationA Critical Examination]]' published by the [[Alexis de Tocqueville Institution]] (AdTI) on August 11, 1994. (''See:'' [[AdTI-Funding]])
The Independent Institute received from [[Philip Morris]] in 1998 a donation of $25,000. [http://www.pmdocs.com/getimg.asp?DOCID=2065243965/3979&PGNO=2065243972]
*The [[Earhart Foundation]] gave in 1998 - 2001 in total $46,095 to support editor Dr. [[Robert Higgs]].
*The [[Castle Rock Foundation]] gave in 2002 for "''General operating support''" $25,000.
What adds up to the total amount of $296,095.
== Contact info ==
<blockquote>The Independent Institute<br>