The market advocacy developed into a closed self-referential tradition in economics

Evidence

The Austrian input strengthened the British tradition of principled market advocacy led by Robbins and Arnold Plant, which can be regarded as an early instance of the evolution of modern economics into a closed, self-referential system of thought. — Philip Mirowski & Dieter Plehwe (eds.), The Road from Mont Pèlerin, 154

Categorization

• XREF: Relates to the claims about economics becoming a self-referential system of thought in other methodological works. — connects to: Market advocacy can rest on despair about alternatives rather than genuine conviction — Angus Burgin, The Great Persuasion: Reinventing Free…, 97; Economists’ conflicted interests drive their advocacy of carbon markets — Philip Mirowski, Never Let a Serious Crisis Go to Waste, 928; Hayek’s market argument rests on an epistemology of dispersed tacit knowledge — Dieter Plehwe, Quinn Slobodian & Philip Mirowski (eds.), Nine Lives of Neoliberalism, 72 (+1 more)
• corroborated: 2 independent passages support this claim — Philip Mirowski & Dieter Plehwe (eds.), The Road from Mont Pèlerin: The Making…, 154