Intellectual orthodoxies require active institutional support to survive crises, not inertia

Evidence

The other tactic is to engage in serious sociological examination of the profession and its foibles, as we do here. The economics profession can seem to have escaped scot-free from the crisis only because certain fundamental intellectual trends and supportive institutions conspired to maintain its standing in the face of screaming headwinds. Intellectual orthodoxies never persevere out of pure inertia, not over the long haul; it takes more than a village to keep them on life support. — Philip Mirowski, Never Let a Serious Crisis Go to Waste, 552

Categorization

• XREF: Ties into the reader’s ‘thought collective’ thesis — orthodoxies persist via organized networks, echoing Mirowski’s broader argument about the neoliberal thought collective. — connects to: Neoliberalism has a coherent crisis logic despite lacking fixed doctrine — Philip Mirowski, Never Let a Serious Crisis Go to Waste, 146; Neoliberalism survives crises through deliberate policy adaptability, not fixed doctrine. — Dieter Plehwe, Quinn Slobodian & Philip Mirowski (eds.), Nine Lives of Neoliberalism, 206; Institutionalization is necessary but codified orthodoxy is to be resisted. (+4 more)

Broader Connections

• Neoliberalism survives crises through deliberate policy adaptability, not fixed doctrine. #corroborates (0.90) — Dieter Plehwe, Quinn Slobodian & Philip Mirowski (eds.), Nine Lives of Neoliberalism, 206
• Neoliberalism has a coherent crisis logic despite lacking fixed doctrine #qualifies (0.85) — Philip Mirowski, Never Let a Serious Crisis Go to Waste, 146
• Crises have not discredited neoliberal governance #exemplifies (0.85) — Wendy Brown, Undoing the Demos, 749
• Institutionalization is necessary but codified orthodoxy is to be resisted. #expands (0.80)
• Orientalism operates as a discourse with material institutional support #exemplifies (0.80) — Edward W. Said, Orientalism, 52
• Law-and-order ideology legitimizes state intervention in crises #exemplifies (0.80)
• Institutional power enables through constraint rather than disruption #qualifies (0.75) — David Theo Goldberg, The Threat of Race, 1822