Goodhart 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

Goodhart 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