Is economics a social science or a business science?
>>1142553
Economics is speculative philosophy with graphs.
>>1142553
Economics is just statistics.
>>1142553
You mean my wife's son.
>>1142561
If you're an Austrian or a Marxian, sure.
>>1142553
its bullshit
>>1142553
what's a business science?
who cares?
Economics is an analytical skill
Science barely enters into it, but the point is still to understand the subject
Actually economist here. Its a social science.
>>1143074
my friend's doing his undergrad in math and econ and always makes fun of economists for knowing zero math (mostly because our school implies that you need 'rigorous' mathematical knowledge, translation calc 1 & 2). how true is this?
>>1142561
Top tier post
>>1142553
Economics is ideological mystification
>>1143175
Not that guy but I'm an economist too. We can't compete against a mathematician but we do know a fair deal of math.
And what's exactly calc 1 and 2? I took 4 calculus courses, 2 statistics, 2 econometrics and all economic theory is math with economic interpretation.
>>1143678
Except Austrian School economics, but that's not real economics anyway.
>>1143175
Not entirely wrong. One of the guys on the admissions board for the PhD program in my dept told me that it's better to be a math major than an econ major if you want to get into the econ PhD program.
So I took a course on proof-based linear algebra, and I was able to walk all over the rest of the class in ecmt forecasting.
Whatever is the case, major in math and minor or double major in econ
>>1143758
Why is that school still around? They've been proved wrong many times and who the fuck takes them seriously if they don't agree with the idea of empirical evidence?
>>1144466
They're still around because AnCaps still need something to jerk over
>economics
>a science
>>1144466
nice dubs-trips-dubs
>>1144466
>They've been proved wrong many times
Top laff
Wanna know how I know you're a Keynesian?
It is a social science.
It has some advantages and some disadvantages over the others.
Economists usually have better statistical methods than other social scientists, tend to be more open minded and less ideological than the other ones (not that they are incredibly open minded, but it is very easy to be less ideological than other social sciences) and mathematics can help by not allowing people to bullshit too much (this is usually not a big problem in psychology, but a huge problem in others).
On the other hand, mathematics can also be used to obfuscation, economists can get very arrogant and then end up embarrassing themselves when they try to go to other fields without studying them before.
It's a social science with a bit of math and statistics sprinkled in
>>1144466
Mind refuting some central ideas of austrian economics?
