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We want to argue that a particular notion of ideology, formulated in Lawson (2012), should be preferred to its alternatives precisely because it does render ideology a distinct and irreplaceable category. Unlike Lawson (2012), though, we present the historical origins of this notion of ideology, the roots of which can be found in Marx and Schumpeter. 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