I admit I am a practionineer of this clap trap. (at least thats is what my cv tells me.) eventually evo-eco , Behavioral economics and whatever socio-biology is going to be called mature we can start talking about truth values of economic statements. Until then economic utterances are closer to religious creeds than scientific statements. Being a keynsian a chicago school guy or a austrian school devotee is analogous
to being a Methodist an Anglican or a Jehovah's Witness. I belive that they belive I just don't belive that they could possibly know what that claim to know.
My wife has a Ph.D. in Sociology from a top school - talk about frameworks! -XC
rational from experiences with people? actually there is a good paper that implies that a small set of "rational actors" can make a system act "rationally". In my experience "rationality" is a social construct that does not hold cross-culturally. for example western folks experimental results in the ultimatum skew farther from the predicted Nash equilibrium then those of some hunter-gatherers.