` Marx and Weber do not even have sections of there own in this article!  The article does have a section on Marxian approaches - which is not the same as Marx.  It also has a section on the German/Austrian historical school.  Comparing the IEF with Marxian approaches is mixing apples and oranges.  You need to learn to distinguish between theoretical approaches and specific methods and instruments, they are on analyticially distinct levels.  A particular method is a subset of a theoretical approach (You could instead have written, ``I could use exactly the same argument to state that Paul Willis's ethnographic study, Learning to labor should not have a section of its own.  And you know what?  You would be right!  Like the IEF, Willis's ethnographic study should not have its own section in this article).  The substantive claims underlying the IEF, that identifies capitalism with freedom, come directly out of the German/Austrian set of approahces (which is already in the article).  Let's just put a link in that section to this one (of hundreds if not thousands) of attempts to turn a school of thought into a quantitiative instrument.    |   `