Losing perspective -- no "big picture"

Bob Kolker wrote:
(David P.) wrote:

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Modern_world

From the time of Newton, or perhaps even Descartes,

many branches of modern science (perhaps the most
extreme example being economics) have been
increasingly accused of losing perspective due to their
over-stretched efforts to find explanations of nature
which are easily analysed in terms of easily measured
and easily mathematicised terms.


Economics is NOT a science. It never was a science. It will never be a
science.

Then your definition of science is far, far too restrictive. Physics
was a science, even when it was about phlogiston. The point of
it *being* science is the method by which it changes, not
the end result.

Built in to every economic theory is an explanation of why its
predictions sometimes fail.


That doesn't make it nonscience, either.

Bob Kolker



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Les Cargill