Top-ranked journals such as the American Economic Review, Quarterly Journal of Economics, and the Journal of Political Economy (the Chicago house organ) declared they would cease publication of any articles whatsoever in the area, after a long history of acceptance. Once this policy was put in place, then derivative journal rankings were used to deny hiring and promotion at the commanding heights of economics to those with methodological leanings. Consequently, the graybeards summarily expelled both philosophy and history from the graduate economics curriculum; and then they chased it out of the undergraduate curriculum as well.

Philip Mirowski, Never Let a Serious Crisis …, loc. 460