"The large mass of the public does not find it economically worthwhile to become well acquainted with the effects of policies which have small harmful effects upon each non-beneficiary." (George Stigler, unpublished paper "Schools in Science," quoted in Nik-Khah, "George Stigler, the Graduate School of Business, and the Pillars of the Chicago School," p. 140) 138 Some evidence supports Stigler's position: in a number of countries, it was explicitly socialist parties that introduced some of the most critical neoliberal reforms.

Philip Mirowski, Never Let a Serious Crisis …, loc. 1908