It is distressing that these writers, frequently champions of hard-nosed, tough-minded “analysis of reality,” fall short when it comes to serious analysis of the multipronged efforts to steer public discourse in certain targeted directions, the incongruous swerves that so vex their sensibilities. Perhaps worse, it seems evident someone like Krugman might be more than a little disconcerted to be told that he is as much a cog in this larger machine as John Cochrane, or any other bête noire.

Philip Mirowski, Never Let a Serious Crisis …, loc. 832