Economic crises are also conceptual and intellectual catastrophes

Evidence

This book therefore seeks to supplement it along a crucial dimension: it explores the economic crisis as a social disaster, but simultaneously a tumult of intellectual disarray. — Philip Mirowski, Never Let a Serious Crisis Go to Waste, 45

Categorization

• DEFINE: Frames Mirowski’s core method: treating the crisis as intellectual disarray, not just economic damage.
• XREF: connects to: The 2008 crisis was fundamentally a crisis of economic ideas — Mark Blyth, Austerity: The History of a Dangerous…, 132; Creative destruction, not peace, causes capitalism’s endemic crises — Max Haiven, Cultures of Financialization, 428; Each great economic transformation produces its own characteristic type of crisis — Yanis Varoufakis, Technofeudalism: What Killed Capitalism, 517 (+8 more)

Broader Connections

• The crisis exposed an epistemological contradiction festering inside orthodox economics #exemplifies (0.85) — Philip Mirowski, Never Let a Serious Crisis Go to Waste, 619
• Each great economic transformation produces its own characteristic type of crisis #expands (0.80) — Yanis Varoufakis, Technofeudalism, 517
• Ideology shapes economic crisis rather than merely reflecting it #expands (0.80)
• Intellectual mentality and money economy mutually reinforce each other #corroborates (0.80)
• Economists obscuring knowledge during crisis stems from contradicting logics of expertise and market faith #expands (0.75) — Philip Mirowski, Never Let a Serious Crisis Go to Waste, 655
• Post-crisis economists reacted in one of three distinct ideological postures #expands (0.75) — Philip Mirowski, Never Let a Serious Crisis Go to Waste, 656
• Crises are formal phases that temporarily suspend normal premises of conduct #qualifies (0.70)