Wally and Dean,

I agree about Douglas being exceptional. He not only looked at the empirical data he confronted it and its implications mathematically and systemically, and then like the good engineer and cost accountant prescribed policies to remedy what he looked at and discovered. Looking at the actual data and then finding the various relationships between those datums is the quintessential scientific mode of thought.  Douglas was more scientific than allegedly scientific economic theorists are today. He looked, they don’t, either because of ignorance, sheer opinionated  bullheadedness or the prejudice/distraction of either economic and/or scientific orthodoxy.