ABSTRACT
In Reorienting Economics (Lawson 2003a) and elsewhere (e.g. Lawson 2006a), I defend a specific ontological conception and use it to interpret the nature of both the mainstream and heterodox traditions in economics. Various commentators suggest that my position in all this is insufficiently pluralist. In this short chapter, I hope to convince otherwise. Specifically, I will seek to allay any concern that I defend a conception in which heterodoxy is somehow discouraged from engaging others, is necessarily oriented to replacing the mainstream with an undesirably monolithic paradigm, and/or is encouraging of isolationism.
