Economics doctrine functions not to explain reality but to defend capitalism.

Evidence

The role of neoclassical economists is not to explain society’s deepest dynamics, but to support and buttress some convenient truth. It is certainly convenient for capitalism to claim that there is no escaping the market, and that the market functions efficiently in our best-of-all-possible worlds. — Clara E. Mattei, Escape from Capitalism, 242

Categorization

• XREF: Directly serves the ‘invisible order’ frame — economics naturalizes the market so it appears apolitical and inescapable. — connects to: Capitalism’s apparent naturalness is a constructed hoax, not an inevitability. — Clara E. Mattei, Escape from Capitalism, 26; Orthodox economists’ model-legitimacy criterion is political, not epistemic. — Philip Mirowski, Never Let a Serious Crisis Go to Waste, 793
• DEEPTHINKING: This is the discipline-level version of the book’s core argument: that a purportedly neutral science is a political instrument of order-maintenance.