The academic cheerleaders were, in the main, innocent dupes. Not especially well paid, generally centre-left in political orientation, they provided the philosophical justification for greed and for rightist ideology, through a Panglossian message of markets efficient in both a broad and narrow sense.
PS. I've just finished his book, which is great. The last chapter in particular makes a number of points I am in total agreement with.
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