ABSTRACT
As an economist with a son having heavy autistic leanings, the discussion of the “Autistic Economics” quickly caught my attention. I had never thought of the economics profession or its neoclassical orthodoxy as “autistic.” I think that this way of thinking can be useful, at least as a preliminary step, allowing the economics profession eventually to transcend autism. But as with all analogies, we must examine not only the similarities between autism and orthodox economics, but also the differences.
