Most mainstream media pundits, party elders, and gatekeepers of the halls of power, whether they are liberals or conservatives, Democrats or Republicans, atheists or non-atheists, pro-science or anti-science, have one sincerely held “religious” belief that their entire reasoning and sense-making-apparatuses hinge upon. It is so pervasive that it is usually unspoken and unthought, but it looms over all: neoclassical economics.