Less frequently observed is the turn of this group away from statistics and business cycle research by the end of the 1930s. I argue that they concluded that the world economy was sublime, beyond repre­sen­ta­tion and quantification. This conclusion turned them away from the documentation and analy­sis of the economy as such and ­toward the design of institutions necessary to sustain and protect the sacrosanct space of the world economy.

Quinn Slobodian, Globalists, loc. 76