  This article is a response to the recent Worrying Trends in Econophysics
critique written by four respected theoretical economists. Two of the four have
written books and papers that provide very useful critical analyses of the
shortcomings of the standard textbook economic model, neo-classical economic
theory and have even endorsed my book. Largely, their new paper reflects
criticism that I have long made and that our group as a whole has more recently
made. But I differ with the authors on some of their criticism, and partly with
their proposed remedy.
