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Re:The Capitalist Manifesto: Greed Is Good (To a point) by berntb on Sunday June 14, 2009 @11:15AM (#657146)
Like e.g. palaeontology, economists can't do experiments. You must remember that about economy.

I've read a bit too much criticism of economy as a science using the same argument you see from creationists against palaeontology. (That is, assumptions that all researchers are idiots and/or in a conspiracy against the creationists/left wing extremists.)

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Re:The Capitalist Manifesto: Greed Is Good (To a point) by nazgulnarsil on Monday June 15, 2009 @01:06AM (#657972)
well pure paleontology is abduction is a sense. but the thing about paleontology is that it is based on biology in which we can do experiments.
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Re:The Capitalist Manifesto: Greed Is Good (To a point) by berntb on Monday June 15, 2009 @04:16AM (#658135)
Economy is arguably based on cognitive psychology and game theory. (A bit less strictly, but it should even out with all the lacking environmental parameters in paleontology...)
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