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Re:Games Economists Play by taffer on Saturday September 28, 2019 @11:18AM (#21100768)
Why is agreement a measure of how scientific a field is? I would argue that if there are no conflicting views, no progress can be made. I would also argue that the older a science is, the more consensus there will be for fundamental things, and since economics is a rather new science, there are fewer things economists can agree on.

Besides, there are actually a lot of things that economists agree on: https://gregmankiw.blogspot.com/2009/02/news-flash-economist...

Re:Games Economists Play by chroem- on Saturday September 28, 2019 @11:46AM (#21100989)
>since economics is a rather new science

Isaac Newton's Principia was first published in English in 1728. Adam Smith published The Wealth of Nations in 1776. That's a 48 year head start out of the nearly 250 years we have had both physics and economics.

Re:Games Economists Play by QuesnayJr on Saturday September 28, 2019 @01:55PM (#21101799)
Economics as a serious empirical science is a post-World War 2 phenomenon. Ptolemy had better data about the planets in the second century than we had about the economy in the early twentieth century.