Economics functions as both scientific method and vehicle for ruling ideology.
Evidence
Economics itself (that is the subject as it is taught in universities and evening classes and pronounced upon in leading articles) has always been partly a vehicle for the ruling ideology of each period as well as partly a method of scientific investigation. — Dieter Plehwe, Quinn Slobodian & Philip Mirowski (eds.), Nine Lives of Neoliberalism, 607
Categorization
- XREF: Connects to the reader’s general interest in how economic doctrine gets transmitted into policy — echoes the Milgrom and social-capital materials on institutions in the library. — connects to: Economics serves power more effectively when it operates in innocence of serving it — Clara E. Mattei, Escape from Capitalism, 241; The theory of ideology must hold both relative autonomy and economic determination simultaneously.; Economics functions as conflict over belief rather than objective science — Yanis Varoufakis, Technofeudalism: What Killed Capitalism, 779 (+6 more)
Broader Connections
- Neoclassical economists deliberately framed economics as an exact science to gain authority.
#exemplifies(0.85) — Clara E. Mattei, Escape from Capitalism, 209 - Economic determination can assign dominance to politics or religion in an epoch
#expands(0.82) — Hall, Stuart, Essential Essays, Volume 1, 493 - The theory of ideology must hold both relative autonomy and economic determination simultaneously.
#expands(0.80) - Economics is lateral to governing, not its internal rationality
#contradicts(0.80) — Michel Foucault, The Birth of Biopolitics, 1467 - The economy functions as model, object, and project of neoliberal state rationality.
#exemplifies(0.78) — Wendy Brown, Undoing the Demos, 107 - Economics’ legitimating power depends on the surrounding political and cultural context.
#qualifies(0.75) — Donald MacKenzie, An Engine, Not a Camera, 1194 - Economics functions as conflict over belief rather than objective science
#corroborates(0.72) — Yanis Varoufakis, Technofeudalism, 779