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[โ€“] bouh@lemmy.world -4 points 1 year ago (1 children)

Sociology is an actual science with a methodology and it tries to learn from other sciences.

Economy considers it pure like maths despite the evidences it is not the case.

Economy is pseudo-science at its best.

[โ€“] Teppic@kbin.social 4 points 1 year ago

Economy` is pseudo-science at its best.

This sentence doesn't even make sense.
Econometrics is highly research driven and evidence based. In it's simplest form econometrics says if you put prices down you will (usually) sell more of your product. You'd dismiss this observation as pseudo-science?