Re: Economics of Environmentalism RE: Authority of the marketplace?

[John D. Giorgis]

At 12:01 AM 7/19/01 -0500 Dan Minette wrote:
>I would tend to disagree.  I know the "social sciences" consider themselves
>science, but there is a lot of difference between ecconomics and science.
>Compare the predictive ability of the best ecconomist with the 100,000th
>best physicist. :-)

But that's irrelevant.   

To quote Alfred, Lort Tennyson "science is trained and ordered common sense."

You can't define a science based on the ability of its most trained members
to make predictions.  That definition is unworkable.

The question is whether or not the specialists rigorously apply the
scientific method to their work.   On this basis, I think that Economics
most certainly qualifies.

JDG
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