In his famous paper "The Use of Knowledge on Society," Hayek wrote:
"Today it is almost heresy to suggest that scientific knowledge is not the sum of all knowledge."
Unfortunately, now in 2021, we can drop the "almost" when discussing nearly all forms of inquiry. Discussions of non-scientific knowledge usually result in accusations of "denying" or "refusing to listen to the experts" or the like.
But there is also an equal but opposite reaction that has developed: treating non-scientific knowledge as the sum of all knowledge. Scientific knowledge is inferior to local knowledge, or it is suspicious.
But to understand the entirety of the economic order, we need both scientific and local knowledge. They are complimentary