Well maybe macro *is* in a scientific state, from your description.
Sticking to Kuhn's terminology, "normal" scientific activity occurs when
scientists use existing models to solve outstanding issues. From one
perspective, maco is organized around general equilibria, and the fighting
is over the details of money, capital and labor markets, as you
describe. The situation is similar in many branches of physics - people
often accept very broad ideas (Newton's mechanics) and then squabble over
details, which may seem huge to insiders, but small to outsiders.

Also: I've never bought the whole social science is too complex argument
for why economics and physical science differ. A lot of the life and
physical sciences deal with complex systems - ever study turbulence
theory?  It's prettty friggin' hard and complex. Or ecology - lot's of
interrelated parts. But we still consider them sciences.

Fabio 

> in macro-economics. Everybody in main stream economic thinking about
> macro-problems has a general equilibrium ! model with capital markets,
> labor markets, and money markets in mind. The specifics of how some of
> those markets should be represented and what the rationale is for the
> representations used is the main items for debate. - - Bill Dickens


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