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by dwaltrip 4625 days ago
Economics is not a science. You can't test hypotheses rigorously. Which makes these debates 100x harder.
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nl 4625 days ago
This is true, but it is also true for other sciences (eg meteorology, mentioned elsewhere).

I'm not sure what the solution to the untestable hypothesis problem is.

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