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According to economist John Quiggin, the standard features of " economic fundamentalist rhetoric " are " dogmatic " assertions and the claim that anyone who holds contrary views is not a real economist.
John Ralston Saul claims this is simply a form of bullying.
This approach follows from evidence that neoclassical economics provides a scientific explanation of economic phenomena, an explanation that economists state represents the status of scientific truth ( if, and only if, all of the assumptions involved in deriving the economic analysis are simultaneously satisfied ).
However, Kozul-Wright states in his book The Resistible Rise of Market Fundamentalism that " ineluctability of market forces " neo-liberals and conservative politicians tend to stress, and their confidence on a chosen policy, rest on a " mixture of implicit and hidden assumptions, myths about the history of their own countries ' economic development, and special interests camouflaged in their rhetoric of general good ".

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