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> Economics can be a science. As it is practiced today, it is most definitely not. I always find it interesting that when you open a quantum mechanics textbook
by Xcelerate 13y ago
> Economics can be a science. As it is practiced today, it is most definitely not.
I always find it interesting that when you open a quantum mechanics textbook you see pages upon pages of math. When you open an economics textbook, you see lots of words and very few equations (at least compared to the other sciences). If anything, the complexity of something like economics should merit more math than QM, not less.
- lutusp 13y ago> If anything, the complexity of something like economics should merit more math than QM, not less. Yes, all but for the fact that there is less meaningful mathematics in economics than in most sciences and pseudosciences. It's one thing to describe some aspect of economic behavior with words, but quite another to try to meaningfully quantify that description with an equation.
- cones688 13y agoIt is technically a dogma, as there is non-consistent opposing schools of thought and no clear way to prove, mainly due to human influence which is mostly unpredictable and random.
- yummyfajitas 13y agoEverything you just said applies equally well to quantum mechanics, or basically any statistical field. I guess only classical physics is a science?
- ACow_Adonis 13y agoRead some economics graduate papers? Hint: There's often lots of math, little of substance, and its proof that lots of math by itself doesn't mean anything...kind of the like the OP incidentally... /and I am very sympathetic to the idea that economics is not a science.