Economics serves to maintain the bourgeois state and capitalism's place in the academy. It launders pro-capital policy as if were simply some kind of scientific truth and helps to justify and maintain a particular pro-capital economic equilibrium.

When the math and theory are relatively rigorous in economics, they are nearly always posed as a means of maintaining the pro-capital status quo. Metrics of worker power become markers of instability (for that status quo, this is true!), for example. The better their ideas are at keeping capital on top, the more likely they are to get traction.