Even well-funded and widely-supported notions, projects, and institutions prove to be mere facades when we demand evidence and verifiable predictability.

So to actually be provocative, I suggest that we set aside theoretical economic constructs and mention the hypothesis of Democracy itself.

Government itself becomes the consensus of the wealthy. And for any lesser hysteria, we can consider the uncomfortable lessons described in "Extraordinary Popular Delusions and the Madness of Crowds". [1]

[1] _ https://www.gutenberg.org/files/24518/24518-h/24518-h.htm