6 I have sought to make this case in greater detail in ScienceMart. Both that previous and this current book exist to contravene the conventional wisdom within the profession that, "although some economists within the Mont Pèlerin Society became very influential within economics, changes in the academic arena were driven by other forces" (Backhouse, The Puzzle of Modern Economics, p. 143).

Philip Mirowski, Never Let a Serious Crisis …, loc. 2170