So, did Gorton suffer any of the consequences of detonating one of the biggest IEDs in the biggest financial crisis since the Great Depression? Apparently not. First off, in May 2008, just as AIG was reporting a massive quarterly loss of $7.8 billion, the Yale School of Management thought it an auspicious occasion to hire Mr. Gorton away from the Wharton School. … This unrepentant practice of mendacity through circumspection is precisely how the economics profession manages to purport to speak for “the public” while functioning as public relations arm for the financial sector.

Philip Mirowski, Never Let a Serious Crisis …, loc. 568