The Institute judged bourgeois economics irrelevant because it focuses on the inessential

Evidence

A main task would be to show why we regard a large portion of contemporary national economy as irrelevant, and why this conviction is not arbitrary. Like many other contemporary scholarly fields, the ideological aspect of national economy is often not even a matter of objective falsehoods and confusions, but rather a matter of its focus on the inessential. — Dirk Braunstein, Adorno’s Critique of Political Economy, 501

Categorization

• DEFINE: Clarifies the Institute’s diagnosis of bourgeois ideology: not objective falsehood but focus on the inessential — a distinctive epistemological gloss on ideology critique.