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[–] theacharnian@lemmy.ca 9 points 7 hours ago

Economics is a social science like Linguistics, Political Science, Social Work and Human Geography.

It is not a natural science like Physics or Chemistry.

The problem arises when economists, typically "orthodox" ones (the very existence of an orthodoxy/heterodoxy should raise all sorts of flags) demand that the predictions of their models be treated as natural laws, which of course they aren't.