Li describes two ways that the tech industry changed the schemas used in trade negotiations. First, schemas are changed through "knowledge production" - creating reports and data.

Second, schemas are embedded through "recursive institutional reproduction" - a bit of unfortunately opaque academic jargon that is roughly equivalent to what activists call "#PolicyLaundering."

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Scott Pruitt's EPA has opened secret backchannels to the climate denial industry to find "scientists" and other "experts"

Scott Pruitt's EPA has opened secret backchannels to the climate denial industry to find "scientists" and other "experts"

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