The crisis’s demand for speed let well-funded networks capture its interpretation.

Evidence

Political expediency dictated the need for speed and cohesion in response to the numerous calls to understand what had happened in the crisis hard on the heels of 2008. The hubbub over the TARP revealed a field in discombobulation and disarray. Not least was there confusion over what it was supposed to accomplish, the topic of the next chapter. There was no luxury of waiting a generation for a synoptic account to emerge. The Koch brothers (and a rogues’ gallery of others) have redoubled their attempts to skew the economics profession in a more neoliberal direction, precisely in order to broadcast in a timely fashion the notion that neoliberals bore no responsibility for the crisis, and indeed, come fully equipped with everything that is needed to remedy it. — Philip Mirowski, Never Let a Serious Crisis Go to Waste, 646

Categorization

• XREF: Builds toward the book’s core thesis about how post-2008 economics was deliberately re-skewed; ties to Naomi Klein’s shock-doctrine timing logic.