<i>I suspect reality will get about as much traction against idealogues of e.g. the Chicago School</i><p>This is an odd criticism. I could see it applied to Chicago&#x27;s cousin, the Austrian school, which clearly relies more on <i>ideas</i> (viz. the work of Hayek and Mises, both of whom considered themselves political philosophers as much as economists).<p>But Chicago is just the opposite. It&#x27;s been criticized for being <i>too</i> tied up in the mathematics of it all. Chicagoans <i>love</i> numbers.