Mainstream journalists now openly suspect economic crisis analysis was deliberately manipulated

Evidence

Yet the reason we need to invoke agnotology here is that even some figures in the mainstream media have come around to openly speculate that economic analyses of the crisis have been manipulated for dark motives for quite some while now. — Philip Mirowski, Never Let a Serious Crisis Go to Waste, 826

Categorization

• DEFINE: Introduces agnotology as the study of culturally induced ignorance.
• XREF: Connects to the book’s broader thesis about the Neoliberal Thought Collective engineering doubt; agnotology as deliberate ignorance-production resonates with the reader’s study of how austerity survived its crisis. — connects to: The crisis seemed confusing because elites deliberately obscured the truth — Philip Mirowski, Never Let a Serious Crisis Go to Waste, 1769; Mainstream business media turned openly hostile to economics after 2008 — Philip Mirowski, Never Let a Serious Crisis Go to Waste, 444; Market designers misrepresented the crisis to serve their own profit, worsening public confusion. — Philip Mirowski, Never Let a Serious Crisis Go to Waste, 849 (+3 more)