The other tactic is to engage in serious sociological examination of the profession and its foibles, as we do here. The economics profession can seem to have escaped scot-free from the crisis only because certain fundamental intellectual trends and supportive institutions conspired to maintain its standing in the face of screaming headwinds. Intellectual orthodoxies never persevere out of pure inertia, not over the long haul; it takes more than a village to keep them on life support.

Philip Mirowski, Never Let a Serious Crisis …, loc. 552