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minus-squareonslaught545@lemmy.ziplinkfedilinkarrow-up0·13 days agoEconomics is absolutely a real science. That’s like saying sociology isn’t a real science.
minus-squarepulsewidth@lemmy.worldlinkfedilinkarrow-up0·13 days agoIts a science but its actual experimental data (eg: real science) is a small fraction of the field and relatively new. Also, much like other humanities sciences… There’s been the alarming discovery that much of what is taken for granted by earlier studies and applied at scale worldwide, is bunk - or at least very flawed. https://theconversation.com/the-replication-crisis-has-engulfed-economics-49202 So you can forgive people for being dismissive.
minus-squareskittle07crusher@sh.itjust.workslinkfedilinkarrow-up0·13 days agoIt’s political economy with the politics “removed.” As if you can just subtract the human, political impact of political economy and meaningfully “only” talk cold hard dollars.
Economics is absolutely a real science. That’s like saying sociology isn’t a real science.
Its a science but its actual experimental data (eg: real science) is a small fraction of the field and relatively new.
Also, much like other humanities sciences… There’s been the alarming discovery that much of what is taken for granted by earlier studies and applied at scale worldwide, is bunk - or at least very flawed. https://theconversation.com/the-replication-crisis-has-engulfed-economics-49202
So you can forgive people for being dismissive.
It’s political economy with the politics “removed.” As if you can just subtract the human, political impact of political economy and meaningfully “only” talk cold hard dollars.