Neoliberal funders admitted success in economics but failure in humanities disciplines.

Evidence

“Despite the waste of … possibly one billion dollars in endowing chairs of free enterprise, we have been winning in economics for some time now. We have also done well in law, philosophy and political science… . History, moral philosophy and literature are a different matter” (Blundell 2003, 44). — Philip Mirowski & Dieter Plehwe (eds.), The Road from Mont Pèlerin, 2180

Categorization

• XREF: Connects to the broader literature on how disciplines differ in resistance to ideological capture.