Hence any academic status degradation of the economics profession on its home ground would entail an implicit repudiation of the trajectory of university restructuring, which had three decades of impetus behind it. In other words, absent the world being turned upside down, or another great wave of university restructuring, the economics profession would continue to enjoy shelter from the impecunious storm within the modern university.

Philip Mirowski, Never Let a Serious Crisis …, loc. 589