ABSTRACT
If the reader has studied How Economics Forgot History as well as this present volume, he or she will have traversed almost 800 pages and about 400,000 words to come to this point. It is a long story, relating how economics has lost many of its past insights and even disowned its own past. It has aspects of a Greek tragedy. But expectations may also be raised after such a long journey, for sustenance and riches at its end. But our expedition has been into the past, and we have merely returned to the present day. Hopefully we have become enriched by this experience, but the greater and more difficult expedition stretches into the uncertain future. The past has provisioned us for this passage. This final chapter is an exhortation to begin the journey, with a few meagre thoughts on some of the problems ahead.
