This volume is dedicated to exploring the ways in which the crisis has not yet served as an exemplary instance of falsification of much of anything; it explores various defense mechanisms of critical groups such as orthodox economists and members of the Neoliberal Thought Collective; the intention is to clear a path to some potential remedy to that situation. However, in order to reach that point, it is first necessary to become better acclimatized to the notion that a burst of bad news does not generally bring a dogma crashing down of its own accord. It takes a whole lot more than that; and thus a preliminary admonition of epistemic caution is the touchstone of the current chapter.

Philip Mirowski, Never Let a Serious Crisis …, loc. 95