>>12870469Economics is the most science-y out of all the social sciences due to having the most rigor and math, but it's still not a hard science because most economic theories and hypotheses are unfeasible and/or unethical to test. Suppose you got a population of 10 million people and messed around with the economy so you could record what happens. That's unfeasible because where would you gain the power to do that? And even if you could, it's unethical because you'd be screwing with people's lives.
>>12871040You don't sound like you know anything about the field. No economist that I know of has ever claimed to atomize people and know precisely how they're going to behave. So long as those models and equations have empirically predictive power they're useful. You seem to be confusing economics for psychology.
