One does not finance truths but organizations which more or less successfully concern themselves with exploring and ascertaining truths or untruths. Mutatis mutandis, a similar situation results with the conversion of property and money into power.

XREF: This parallels Weberian and Foucauldian analyses of institutional power and the objectification of knowledge production. The mutatis mutandis extension to money becoming power recalls Bourdieu's forms of capital conversion.

Niklas Luhmann, Trust and Power, loc. 786