they make qualitative predictions rather than the quantitative ones you need to be considered a science. Of course AE claim that economics is a deductive disci

they make qualitative predictions rather than the quantitative ones you need to be considered a science. Of course AE claim that economics is a deductive discipline rather than the inductive ones orthodox economists assume. I sympathize with this view because it would seem that social sciences can never really meet the prerequisites for actual empiricism (controlled variables). statistical regression often has elements of hand waving as well.