>Soft sciences:
>psychology
>sociology
>anthropology
"Soft science" is actually a misnomer since they're not sciences to begin with.
Is Economics a science?
Andrew Lee
Nolan Flores
neither are philosophy or math
William Roberts
no experiments
Angel Gutierrez
Ok and?
>the scientific method isn't employed in economics
Elaborate. Explain.
Jonathan Lopez
They're each a study of the fundamental nature of something.
Henry Brooks
Every single week we have the same thread. This is getting really boring.
For my fellow economists who seem to seek desperate approval from physicists, mathematicians, etc.: just stop pretending like econ can ever reach the level of maturity and solidity that these hard sciences reached.
To the other guys, who seem to think econ is just a bunch of baboons with no theoretical foundations: read Debreu's Theory of Value, Mas-Colell's General Equilibrium - a Differentiable Approach, Lucas and Stokey's Recursive Methods in Economic Dynamics, etc. and I dare you to say that those are easy books for someone with no background in maths.
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Ayden Russell
>laboratory conditions
What do you mean by laboratory conditions exactly?
Dominic Sullivan
>Elaborate. Explain.
Can you be more specific?
David Wilson
Exactly, can you be more specific? That's what I'm asking you.
Isaiah Phillips
"Science" used to be called "natural history". So yeah