I feel that university education, and business school especially, reifies their students’ importance to business, the economy and society-at-large. They basically tell you that you alone will have the skills to organize production almost against the perception of chaotic laborers. They also tell you that economically nearly everything is known and understood and can be controlled by pulling certain levers.

This self importance is reinforced because companies hire and are composed of the same types of people who believe in their overblown causal powers.