Re:UBI Does Not Require Tax Rates of 40 to 60 Percent
by dragonwriter on Saturday December 24, 2022 @12:17PM
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> Economics is a social science, not a hard science based on empirical evidence
Social sciences are based on empirical evidence the same way hard sciences are; to the extent they are more problematic it is because they deal with complex and
in part, chaotic systems where isolating effects is difficult (a problem shared, often, with life sciences), plus they frequently deal with issues about which political, religious, commercial, and/ir identity issues are tied up (this is true for subfields scattered across the rest of the sciences, but it is true of almost every subfield of the social sciences).
Social sciences are based on empirical evidence the same way hard sciences are; to the extent they are more problematic it is because they deal with complex and in part, chaotic systems where isolating effects is difficult (a problem shared, often, with life sciences), plus they frequently deal with issues about which political, religious, commercial, and/ir identity issues are tied up (this is true for subfields scattered across the rest of the sciences, but it is true of almost every subfield of the social sciences).