It will be good when this questioning leads to a further challenge of all the tenets on which modern, orthodox economics is founded.
Energy growth theory economists have criticized orthodox economics for neglecting the role of energy and natural resources.
According to the bible of orthodox economics perhaps.
Neoclassical economics is occasionally referred as orthodox economics whether by its critics or sympathizers.
Rothschild tells us, "I know this is hard for non-economists to believe, but orthodox economics essentially ignores technological change."
This is distinct from explaining the choices of economic and political agents within those rules, a subject of "orthodox" economics.
Indeed, the entire developed world is in deep, deep trouble from which there is no escape via orthodox economics.
Take, for starters, his assertion that "orthodox economics describes the 'economy as a machine.' "
Although he wrote later, and was more developed than the earlier institutional economists, Galbraith was critical of orthodox economics throughout the late twentieth century.
Become enamoured of what works' (well we know that orthodox economics doesn't work, so what are you offering, Danny?)