Lonergan apparently criticized bureaucracy and the welfare state while emphasizing innovation. Certainly, there is a massive gain to be reached, but only slowly. Lonergan's first communication to me about his economic manuscript in 1968 mentioned the need to get beyond discussions of the family wages. You have to get back here to my analogy with chemistry. The application of the Meyer-Mendelieff discovery of the periodic table was, first, a slow change in the perspective of research chemistry, then a change in the Journals and Publications of Chemistry in the closing decades of the 19th century.
Concrete applications are the manifest realities of the twentieth century.
Following that, there should be a slow recasting of theoretic structures and statistical information revealing the folly of most of present economic policies. Some of the follies, of course, do not need a massive theoretical basis of criticism. The key thing about Lonergan is to forget about Lonergan and have a shot at finding the presuppositions of your own decision to talk or write. Either you come to glimpse that you were carried forward to express yourself by the dynamics of your molecules and mind or you have to settle honestly for the silence of the monkey at a computer. Postmodernism is just the most recent expression of axial and truncated fragmentation but within its sophistications are seeds of its own sublation to post-axiallity.