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The "Dismal Science"? It has never been a science. You can't run controlled experiments outside of small microeconomic scenarios, so nothing is falsifiable or
by SoftTalker 1y ago
The "Dismal Science"?
It has never been a science. You can't run controlled experiments outside of small microeconomic scenarios, so nothing is falsifiable or repeatable. It's all just arguing about correlation and causation.
- Workaccount2 1y agoThis is like saying meteorology is not a science. I'm sure you believe in climate change, and climatology is even more removed than meteorology... I've consistently found that people talking about the unscientific nature of economics are actually just upset with what it says, similar to people who are upset with what climatology says.
- PaulHoule 1y agoWeather reports are really accurate. Economic forecasts less so.
- Workaccount2 1y agoWeather reports have the luxury of only needing to forecast out a week, and only very accurate for coming 1-3 days.
- monkeyelite 1y agoI agree with you that it means large amounts of agreed upon science would not fit that definition of science. Don’t you agree that’s an interesting and consistent observation though?
- tzs 1y agoBy that argument in addition to meteorology that another commenter already mentioned (and more generally atmospheric science), astronomy, most of geology, cosmology, astrophysics, most planetary science, most oceanography, and seismology are not sciences.