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Re:Inflated Bond Ratings Helped Spur the Financial Crisis. T... by bacon_waffle on Thursday August 08, 2019 @12:47AM (#20641927)
Being unable to run those sorts of experiments doesn't disqualify a field from being a Science - consider astrophysics.

I think the issue here is more that economics is describing human behaviour, and we don't fit well in to a mathematical formula.

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Re:Inflated Bond Ratings Helped Spur the Financial Crisis. T... by klodolph on Thursday August 08, 2019 @03:31AM (#20642541)
This is exactly correct. But the issue that “humans don’t fit well to a mathematical formula” is also true of everything that you don’t describe with quantum field theory. Even chemistry is full of this.
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