By the late 1930s, though, the core of the neoliberal movements responded to the rise of what they called economic nationalism, especially in Central Eu­rope, by denying that the economy could be seen at all. Hayek's position that the economy could not be apprehended by the senses was inconsistent with the emerging field of macroeconomics, but it also realigned the proj­ect of neoliberalism: from talking about the economy to talking about the framework that encased it.

Quinn Slobodian, Globalists, loc. 88