ABSTRACT
But now, Robinson is dead, deprived of the Nobel Prize that was rightfully hers; and I glance at various recent books with 'Philosophy' or 'Methodology' yoked to Economics in their titles, or at the journals Economics and Philosophy or Methodus, or attend various conclaves of economists and philosophers, and, by and large, those questions are no longer on the agenda. Perhaps some of my colleagues think that is just as well, bidding good riddance to what they perceive as naive rubbish. But some, myself included, feel that what we have left is diminished, desiccated, and not a little sad. I shall not recapitulate Robinson's questions here - the student can best do that themselves by consulting the original - but propose instead to toddle along inadequately in her footsteps by suggesting a few more large questions for the consideration of the student of economics who may feel that the title of 'Worldly Philosophy' was the one prize worth the candle. If the student then comes to feel that the quasi-speciality of 'Methodology' was a space where her own nascent whys and wherefores could take root and flourish, and not be dismissed in the interest of getting
WHAT ARE THE QUESTIONS? on with 'real economies', then all the nagging questions will not have been in vain.
