Every ruling economic elite create a market for a special kind of bullshit.
A demand for Bullshit that provides a theoretical/theological/"scientific" framework to justify-- nay, ORDAIN-- predation. Theirs.

Why? lots of possible reasons- one might be the "shaving mirror effect" -- the need to be able to stuff a "structural adjustment loan" down the throat of some Latin American nation in difficulty, then pluck it clean of value, leaving economic ruin and the wreckage of lives--and still be able to shave without being tempted to cut deep. A lifetime of tame media and growing "better adjusted" in the economic world probably makes that unlikely--

There will emerge a range of bullshit products, targeted at different consumers depending on a lot of things--the relative ability (or not)to analyze and ask good questions, intellectual level, etc. etc --and on the degree to which the buyer has become so "expert" at the bullshit that he or she can no longer think outside the bovine litter box.

Lots of examples spring to mind--

What's the market for Friedman? Giant.But--shaky?

For Leo Strauss? Jeez. We sure know those guys.

Greenspawn? Aha. Greenspawn brings up another market- the goat bazaar. It's the place where discarded, discredited bullshiteers go to be sold to be roasted for the failure of policy based on bullshit..

Does all this sound a lot like Economics?

Mig, it'll never make sense to you, even though some of the bullshiteers are very, very good--

That's a compliment.

"There is mysterious music in democracy, when people decide to believe in themselves." ---Bill Greider, The Nation.