It is therefore my contention that there is method to the madness, goal orientation behind the gallimaufry laid out in this chapter. I would suggest that much of the brouhaha documented above ends up being subservient to the first movement of the agnotological playbook. Whatever the individual motivations, the plangent exculpations of the orthodox economists serve mostly to ratchet up the levels of doubt and skepticism in the public mind, and lure unsuspecting bloggers into ineffectual disputes that lead nowhere fast. The folderol over the DSGE model or rationality or the EMH just prepares the ground for the implantation of one or more clear and simple neoliberal alternatives, covered in the remainder of this chapter. … The only thing that would give them pause is the genesis of a serious antineoliberal doctrine that began to draw the allegiance of significant numbers of economists, posing a real challenge to the neoliberal ascendancy. So far, nothing of the sort has happened.

Philip Mirowski, Never Let a Serious Crisis …, loc. 834