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!