“Central Banking Research Is Increasingly Directed to Environment, Inequality, Gender, and Race” — say Radu Şimandan and Cristian Valeriu Păun in a recent Econ Journal Watch article. Besides documenting the trend, they say it represents a further corruption of public institutions. “It is important to safeguard against mission creep, as an unchecked concentration of public power risks the same dangers of overreach and inefficiency traditionally associated with monopolistic power.”