I wonder if the majority of philosophers today have never read Plato; or, there are historians who've never read Gibbon? I suspect that there are many chemists who've never read Boyle and mathematicians who are ignorant of Pythagoras(other than what they get in textbooks), as well as physicists who've never turned a page of Newton. That seems the crux of the matter; economists who've fallen for the scientistic fallacy think of their work in the same sense as do many physical scientists. The rest of us regard our subject in a different context. Sam Bostaph