Literally, social ontology is the study of social nature and it concerns itself with “how existents exist”¹. It is the study of the social realm which includes the “domain of all phenomena, existents, properties”² whose existence depends upon humans and their interactions. To paraphrase Little “almost all human action is social: socially oriented, socially embedded or socially constructed”⁶.  So how can it be useful for illuminating the study of economics? If economics is the study of people, and how they interact to form markets, bargain with each other, and more generally interact economically, then we need to examine an economist’s worldview on how these interactions are governed. [...]