Another reason is that heterodox and MIT School economists also often agree on policy, even if their reasoning is different.

The many recipes thesis enriches neo classical economics contribution to the development debate, and many of its policy proposals will find support from heterodox economists.

This staged trial resembles a medieval judgement with detainees kept in iron cages and spectators eager to attend a bloody revenge on the heterodoxes.

One reason is that liberal neo classical economists like Stiglitz and Krugman share values with heterodox economists, and shared values are easily conflated with shared analysis.