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		bee_rider on Dec 11, 2022 \| parent \| context \| favorite \| on: What's wrong with social science and how to fix it... Economics is as unfalsifiable as every other social science, they’ve just had longer to construct a heap of math to hide behind.

pclmulqdq on Dec 12, 2022 [–]

I like to think of economics as being similar to the string theorists in physics. Their work, too, is also practically unfalsifiable but mathematically beautiful.

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