Here we aim at something different. Given our ultimate objective is to understand the unreasonable resilience of the neoliberal Weltanschauung, and the role of the economists in fortifying it, I propose to concentrate on aspects of economics that have confused or otherwise obscured specific components of economic knowledge in the heat of the crisis and thereafter. In this, we further explore the phenomenon of “agnotology” raised in the previous chapter, growing out of the fundamental internal contradiction between trusting the economists to point the way out of the crisis, and trusting the markets to right themselves.

Philip Mirowski, Never Let a Serious Crisis …, loc. 655