Bob Kolker wrote:
Les Cargill wrote:



Then your definition of science is far, far too restrictive. Physics
was a science, even when it was about phlogiston. The point of


The phlogiston hypothesis was refuted empirically. It was disproven by
Lavoisier. The phlogiston hypothesis was both scientific (it could be
tested) and false (it was refuted experimentally)

Bob Kolker


And present theories in economics will be tested and refuted. Several
have already - the Malthusian core of most of the 2oth Centuries'
exposed frauds for a start.

We can't use a standard of maturity of the subject to say
whether or not it's a valid field of enquiry.

--
Les Cargill