Robin Neill writes: 
> 
>     It started from idle curiosity.  Really. 
 
I didn't mean to suggest otherwise in your case.  You were not the one 
who brought policy into the discussion. 
 
>     If there is a new epistemology-psychology out there, what would 
>economics built on it look like?  All the various economicses are 
>defensible, given their different questions and purposes.  The 
>original question here was stricly academic. 
 
I am interested in the same question and have tried to nibble away at 
it a bit in pieces I have written about and deploying Austrian econo- 
mics.  I too would like to address the relationship between what we 
might best call post-Cartesian philosophy and the discipline of 
economics.  Let's first try to work out the theoretical implications 
before we worry about policy. 
 
BTW, one name that has not come up in this thread is Michael Polanyi. 
His work, particularly *Personal Knowledge*, has been very helpful to 
me in thinking about both what economists do and what economics can 
and should do. 
 
My apologies if my glibness came across the wrong way. 
 
Steven Horwitz 
Eggleston Associate Professor of Economics 
St. Lawrence University 
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