Barkley Rosser writes:

econometrics is usually not so oriented to stat 
significance.
Much of this work is actually being done by physicists, now part of the 
so-called
"econophysics" movement, although sometimes the ignorance of economics by
these people can be annoying, especially when they start intoning about how 
they
have solved all the problems of economics, when they have not read much 
literature
and are talking about non-problems ...

Chin up, Barkley, economists have offended too, with their talk about "the
expanding domains of economics", the Max U behavior of bureaucrats, gravity
models to explain urban location, public choice theory, etc. Perhaps this is
all just atavistic tribal behavior, part of the human condition, more to be
pitied than censured.

Mason Gaffney