Paul Krugman had kicked things up a notch with his September 2009 magazine article "How Did Economists Get It So Wrong?" which pointed out the "profession's blindness to the very possibility of catastrophic failures in a market economy," but then attributed it to the bizarre notion that "economists, as a group, mistook beauty, clad in impressive-looking mathematics, for truth."

Philip Mirowski, Never Let a Serious Crisis …, loc. 449