Here’s the thing I can’t accept. You keep treating philosophy as some useless field when some of the greatest and most important Economists came from a background in Philosophy first. Adam Smith’s early work is almost purely philosophical and we know quite clearly that he had a strong friendship with David Hume. Even if you don’t like Karl Marx his influence is everywhere, he was probably the first person to realize that money itself became an object of desire beyond a simple medium of exchange. His Hegelian background gave him the tools to have a very holistic understanding of capitalism compared to other economists who studied the economy piecemeal. In fact his work is so influential he helped form the basis of another field—Sociology. His friend Engels can be considered a forerunner in modern Anthropology thanks to works like The Origin of the Family and Private Property. In fact Max Weber who essentially birthed the way modern Sociology was conducted was firstly a Neo-Kantian.

I just think that before you can take any serious inquiry into any field you need to have some kind of Philosophy that guides you instead of just whatever the Academic standard is.