More On The Relationship Between Economics And Science

This post and the comment that follow may interest some of you who might wonder whether economics is a science or bull***t. It was written in response to a bloger who came down on the side of bull***t. I posted his blog a couple of days ago. Its not uncommon for young economists to wrestle with a less extreme form of a question about how economics compares with hard sciences like physics. The social sciences are different from the hard sciences in many ways. Do these differences exclude them from the field called science?