As Thomas Pynchon wrote in that great twentieth-century classic Gravity's Rainbow, "If you have them asking the wrong questions, you don't have to worry about the right answers." Just as in advertising, the media are full to the brim trumpeting the shock of the new, when all that really happens is that you are being sold the same old jalopy under a new brand name. Thus the economics profession and the Neoliberal Thought Collective have attained coadjuvancy in a mutually beneficial symbiosis, whose product is the maintenance of an economic system and a financial sector essentially unaltered by the greatest global breakdown since the 1930s.

Philip Mirowski, Never Let a Serious Crisis …, loc. 674