> but I'd challenge you to provide a modern example of an economist defending economics as an actual science. Friedman is the most famous example of that, and

> but I'd challenge you to provide a modern example of an economist defending economics as an actual science. Friedman is the most famous example of that, and he unfortunately managed to convince most of his kind that they were actually scientists. The few Econ PhD I know were definitely holding that view and one even compared people questioning the scientific nature of economic to anti-vaxxers.