" Mainstream economists (of the neoclassical school) are always concerned about the intervention of the political authorities into the allegedly self-regulatory functioning of a free-market or capitalistic economic system. This attitude is pure 'economism' and not justifiable (see Teivo Teivainen, 2002). It betrays the ideological prejudices of that school of thought that regards capitalism as a sovereign system existing independently of the political realm, that capitalism operates automatically according to natural economic laws, and that the political authorities should not (and ought not to) interfere with the functioning of the capitalist market. Nothing can be further from the truth than this representation of capitalism by neoclassical economists. "

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