To avoid testing the reader's patience, I will not deal here with more recent academic works that pursue obfuscation to ever greater degrees, such as Bockman, Markets in the Name of Socialism, which argues that the origins of neoliberalism should be traced to Eastern European socialist intellectuals. Worse is Zingales, A Capitalism for the People, which attempts to argue that neoliberalism is pro-capitalism, but hostile to the elite rich and their political power. This latter work is an exemplar of the neoliberal practice of the manufacture of ignorance, discussed later in this chapter.

Philip Mirowski, Never Let a Serious Crisis …, loc. 1821