Steve, here is a paper of Malikane's, chosen at random: https://mpra.ub.uni-muenchen.de/43548/1/MPRA_paper_43548.pdf  Does it have enough maths and numbers for you? Insofar as you seem to understand social science as meaning the absence of maths (which is wrong), and insofar as you have already said that you think Economics is not best approached as a social science (which in my view is very wrong), do you still think that your original criticism of Malikane, that he is not a good economist because his old university "has graduate programs in social science", holds water?

As to "esoteric hypotheses" vs emphasis on "cold hard money" - it's unclear to me what you mean. Economics is not Accounting. It is precisely about developing, testing and applying theories of how economies work.  

I won't say anything about your Marxism point/question, except that it is a bit ironic given your desire for emphasis on "cold hard cash". One of the key features of Marxism is materialist analysis!