ABSTRACT
In the USA the post-autistic economics movement has reverberated most powerfully in political science departments. There, as in economics, it increasingly is the pure elegance and artificial neatness of models, not their relation to real world activities, that reap the greatest rewards. Every other kind of scholar – and there still are many kinds – has gotten the disturbingly clear message that there is one right way and they need not apply. There was ample tinder for a spark to ignite.
