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LSU donor backs new capitalism research center, focused on its ‘greatest prosperity’

States Newsroom · October 16, 2026

The LSU Board of Supervisors Friday approved the creation of the Prosperity Institute, a research center in its business college that the founding donor hopes will definitively prove the superiority of capitalism. Roger Ogden, a New Orleans real estate developer and former LSU board chairman, has been a major donor to…

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LSU donor backs new capitalism research center, focused on its ‘greatest prosperity’

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