[paganel]

“Public policymaking” treats a lot of the present political science and economic discourse as, well, established and tested science, hence all the troubles I mentioned. The same thing used to happen to history, there were a lot of past political decisions taken only because an historian had written a good book or two about a specific subject, but fortunately for historians that train has passed. That partially happened thanks to people like Popper writing about the “Poverty of historicism” and about how we shouldn’t treat history like a “hard science” and especially how we shouldn’t take important policy decisiond based on what history says or doesn’t say, I feel that economics and public political science also need their Popper moment.