"That increasing tendency to embrace methods and models for their own sake rather than because they can help us answer substantively important questions is, I b

"That increasing tendency to embrace methods and models for their own sake rather than because they can help us answer substantively important questions is, I believe, a misstep for the field. This trend is in part the result of the otherwise normal and productive workings of science, but it is also reinforced by less legitimate motives, particularly organizational self-interest and the particularities of our intellectual culture." Perhaps they are becoming another tribe of the Econ, as described by Dr. Leijonhufvud is his 1973 essay 'Life among the Econ' - https://onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/abs/10.1111/j.1465-7295.1973.tb01065.x https://onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/abs/10.1111/j.1465-7295.... edit - here's the full text, unpaywalled - https://economistsview.typepad.com/economistsview/2007/05/axel_leijonhufv.html https://economistsview.typepad.com/economistsview/2007/05/ax...