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This 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.



I 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?


Weather reports are really accurate. Economic forecasts less so.


Weather reports have the luxury of only needing to forecast out a week, and only very accurate for coming 1-3 days.




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