Interesting that when a criticism which is specific as to associations and reasons is posed, the defence is a belittling ad hom.
Mercatus & GMU an outgrowth of the Mont Pelerin Society of "free-market' economists and propagandists.
<https://www.sourcewatch.org/index.php?title=Mont_Pelerin_Soc...>
Excellent investigations of these groups include
- Jane Mayer, Dark Money: on political influence by the Kochs and others. <https://archive.org/details/darkmoneyhiddenh0000maye_k2o0>
- Naomi Oreskes and Eric Conway, Merchants of Doubt: on climate disinformation by the Kochs and others.<https://archive.org/details/merchantsofdoubt00ores>
- Oreskes and Conway, The Big Myth: on how "free markets" were sold as an ideological fable, by the Kochs and others. <https://www.bloomsbury.com/us/big-myth-9781635573572/>
- Philip Mirowski, The Road From Mont Pelerin" on the emergence and development of neoliberal philosophy and economics <https://www.hup.harvard.edu/catalog.php?isbn=9780674088344>
The Kochs, GMU, Mercatus, the Atlas Network, and many affiliated organisations and individuals are at the heart of disinformation about global warming and challenges on both the resource and environmental impacts fronts, and have been for many decades. Koch Industries itself is a massive oil and gas concern which obviously benefits from rebutting and confounding arguments against usage of fossil fuels, both through scientific investigation and governmental regulation, its two principle bogeymen.
The madness lies on their side, and generally lacks libs.