Lee, Frederic wrote: First heterodox economics roughly defines economics as examining and explaining the social provisioning process. Of course within this approach agents make decisions but how they make them is outside the approach used in mainstream economics: people make decisions/choices but they are not neoclassical decisions/choices. However making decisions is just one small component of the social provisioning process and hence one small component of heterodox economics. Secondly, by framing the discussion in terms of economics as a theory of choice with constraints, the exclusion of heterodox economics/economists from the discussion is not unexpected (if not undesired). Who said a theory of choice meant individual choice? "Social provisioning" necessarily means a whole series of social choices, including the degree to which individuals will enjoy discretion in their individual decisions. I do not see how a theory of choice broadly conceived excludes heterodox economics at all. On the contrary, I think such an approach reveals the inadequacy of neoclassical theory. Fred Carstensen