Race, Politics, and Economic Development keyword victor berger and arresting and torturing dozens and arresting and torturing dozens of “suspects” who then obliged with full “confessions” that matched the official lie witty and deeply informed account—taking no prisoners in his pursuit of ‘zombie’ economists—Mirowski surveys the wreckage of what passes for economic thought the spark that ignited the firestorm was Black rage over police brutality and Economic Development strips away the veneer of mass media images to examine the underlying causes of Black urban poverty and to recommend means to escape the seemingly endless cycle of retributive violence that it spawns