With respect to McCloskey: 
 
     I, too, read Feyerabend in the 1970s.  I, too, learned that 
REASON was just one more god, like all the others driving us to 
insanity.  Now I have learned that McCloskey is just one more 
methodologist. 
 
    McCloskey is a false start.  It is not a question of HOW to build 
Economics in the present informational environment.  It is an 
imperative to do so.  But even this statement is a distracting 
reflection. 
 
Answer to Stanfield:  Yes, for that very reason.  If politicians are 
slaves to dead economists, economists are slaves to dead 
philosophers, but need not be. 
 
Answer to Heath Will C:  Excellent! Excellent!