Ehrlich missed the hands. But economics is not so much about the hands as the mind — and heart, and soul. In missing the mind, the soul, the essence of the human person, Ehrlich was not only wrong, but wicked. He refused to see humanity as it is, as essentially creative, a source not only for literature or music, but for the workaday world of producing useful goods and services. In denying the creative mind, the spiritual soul, Ehrlich denied what makes man worthy of respect and dignity.