What is it that the opponents of neoliberalism believe that markets are capable of “knowing,” and conversely, what is it that humans can know that falls outside the precinct of markets and their supposed omniscience and information-processing capacities? How much of any forward-looking political program can be premised upon a set of faculties and competences with regard to the economy that are not reducible to simple profit-seeking?

Philip Mirowski, Never Let a Serious Crisis …, loc. 900