That's right, we're in agreement there. As an Austrian economist I consider economics to be purely an a priori deductive process. However, positivism pushes p

That's right, we're in agreement there. As an Austrian economist I consider economics to be purely an a priori deductive process. However, positivism pushes people to make a science out of everything. So most people, even here at HN, want to believe economics is a hard science, and that you can use mathematical formulas to know in the future how many people will be out of a job. At the very least, it's funny watching otherwise atheists struggling to justify the deeds of their Earthly gods.