I'm responding to:  
>Insisting that economics is about how agents make choices may widen its   
>scope in some respects, but  it (i) narrows its scope in other ways (i.e.   
>social phenomena not evidently grounded in choice are out of bounds)  
  
  
Doesn't the work of Becker and others suggest that social phenomena not   
evidently grounded in choice are in fact so grounded and therefore not out   
of bounds for economists to study?  
  
Jim Eaton