Post-crisis economic consensus lists were dominated by orthodox defenders

Evidence

Panglossian exercises of this nature were ill-suited to reassure the keening populace, so the more proactive journalists went about seeking to construct a provisionary consensus. The Economist decided to ask roughly fifty handpicked economists to identify which economist had been most influential over the past decade, and which had proposed the most important ideas for a postcrisis world. The “most influential” list they compiled was Ben Bernanke, John Maynard Keynes, Jeffrey Sachs, Hyman Minsky, and Paul Krugman; the “most important ideas” roster was Raghuram Rajan, Robert Shiller, Kenneth Rogoff, Barry Eichengreen, and Nouriel Roubini. — Philip Mirowski, Never Let a Serious Crisis Go to Waste, 537

Categorization

• SHARE: A specific colleague studying economics of crisis would find this influencer list galling and discussion-worthy.
• QUESTION: Worth verifying whether these names have since drifted from orthodoxy or hardened into it post-2010.
• XREF: connects to: Post-crisis economists reacted in one of three distinct ideological postures — Philip Mirowski, Never Let a Serious Crisis Go to Waste, 656; The post-crisis INET conferences drifted toward orthodox star power rather than new economic thinking — Philip Mirowski, Never Let a Serious Crisis Go to Waste, 10

Broader Connections

• Post-crisis economists reacted in one of three distinct ideological postures #expands (0.72) — Philip Mirowski, Never Let a Serious Crisis Go to Waste, 656