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It's not a scientific law. It's a meme law, broadly applicable but not always true. Scientific laws have no counterexamples, only refinements.
by hgsgm 4y ago
It's not a scientific law. It's a meme law, broadly applicable but not always true.
Scientific laws have no counterexamples, only refinements.
- drewcoo 4y agoGoodhart was an economist who stated his eponymous law in 1975, before Dawkins's The Selfish Gene (origin of "meme") was published in 1976. So Goodhart was not meme-ing. If you want to argue that economics isn't science or isn't hard science, fine. But law is used here in the sense of scientific law nevertheless. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Category:Economics_laws https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Category:Economics_laws