But there were two considerations that render the folderol of current interest: one, the effectiveness of neoliberals in stiffening resistance to any and all initiatives to reform the economics profession; and two, the fact evident in retrospect of neoclassical economics sailing through the crisis essentially unscathed in the face of such unseemly behavior. To take but two counterexamples, Freudian psychology and social studies of science have in the recent past been internally roiled and intellectually altered by attacks far less evocative in the way of public embarrassment. Yet here was economics, by contrast, the prodigal profession, rapidly welcomed back to the media and the halls of power with alacrity, patted on the head, and all was forgiven.

Philip Mirowski, Never Let a Serious Crisis …, loc. 456