Such and utter BS. There is so much science in econ. Just look at some of the work of the nobel laureates. Gary Becker treating social relationships as outcomes

Such and utter BS. There is so much science in econ. Just look at some of the work of the nobel laureates. Gary Becker treating social relationships as outcomes of economic relations. Great and provacative work. Ostrom on tragedy of the commons and solutions? That has properly changed the way we treat things like fishery, with more sustainable outcomes when applied correctly. Had we learned more of Douglas North, we wouldn't have so much kleptocracy in eastern Europe in the post-USSR period. Fama in finance, etc. etc. Too easy to dismiss that much work. And don't blame economists for the crisis. That's politics. There are a lot more lawyers in politics than economists... We don't discredit the whole of psychological science for the failures of a load of social pop-psychologists. Perhaps, perhaps we can discredit the whole of nutritional science. And even there I'd say we have learned some but that the financial incentives are so biased against proper learning that it's hard to blame the field as a whole.