Perhaps more to the point, Cassidy has made it clear in earlier writing that he does not like mainstream economists, and he may have been overly eager to accept a story that puts them in a bad light.
He would like nothing more than to disprove their theories and supplant them with one of his own.
mnli hypothesis: He would like nothing more than to disprove their theories and supplant them with one of his own. premise: Perhaps more to the point, Cassidy has made it clear in earlier writing that he does not like mainstream economists, and he may have been overly eager to accept a story that puts them in a bad light.