Economists, not politicians, are the ambient zombies in crisis culture

Evidence

Quiggin and I both propound the thesis that our culture is held in thrall to dead and rotten ideas concerning the economic crisis. Suspended in a gauzy red nightmare, it can be hard to discriminate zombies from mere bit players; I think Quiggin is also right to suggest that it is the economists who are the ambient zombies, and not the neoliberals (yet another reason it is indispensable to keep neoclassical economics and neoliberalism separate and distinct as analytical categories). — Philip Mirowski, Never Let a Serious Crisis Go to Waste, 52

Categorization

• DEFINE: Sharpens the book’s key separation between neoclassical economics and neoliberalism as distinct analytical categories.
• corroborated: 3 independent passages support this claim — Philip Mirowski, Never Let a Serious Crisis Go to Waste, 52
• XREF: connects to: Ideology shapes economic crisis rather than merely reflecting it

Broader Connections

• Ideology shapes economic crisis rather than merely reflecting it #expands (0.72)