The necessary insight for economists in order to leave their heads and actually progress

They’re stuck operating almost entirely on two mental integrations below the level of paradigm perception/paradigm change.

Ascending, these levels are:

Theory- mentally gathering and analyzing research and data

Philosophy- mentally organizing concepts

Paradigm Perception/Paradigm Change-mentally analyzing and integrating lower levels of analysis so as to isolate the essential concept/currently reigning paradigm and then using the signatures of imminent paradigm change/actual paradigm change to decipher the new paradigm