Economics should go back to its roots it's roots being that Smith marks Marshall Ricardo they were interested in understanding how people thrive materially and that should be what we remember. I don't think the goal should be to maximize say the size of labor force so the fact that people women and men choose to take leisure is mostly a good thing not a bad thing because the goal of life is it to make the economy as big as possible. How do you reconcile your smithian marxis Ricardi and marshallian urge with the fact that material life is only part of what we care about? We're going to spend too much time thinking as economists about that and ignoring the things that say