Humanomics and liberty promise better economic science
Adam Smith practiced humanomics, and so should we
Economic history illustrates the problems with nonhumanomics
An economic science needs the humanities
It's merely a matter of common sense and intellectual free trade
After all, sweet talk rules a free economy
Therefore we should walk on both feet, like Ludwig Lachmann
That is, economics needs theories of human minds beyond behaviorism
The killer app of humanomics is the evidence that the great enrichment came from ethics and rhetoric
The dignity of liberalism did it
Ideas, not incentives, underlie it
Even as to time and location
Doubts by analytic philosophers about the killer app are not persuasive
Nor by sociologists or political philosophers
Nor even by economic historians.
