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Scientific theories are falsifiable: they make testable predictions.

Austrian Economic theory comes closest to this ideal.



And now you've discovered why economics is a social science. It builds models of human behavior. Humans are non-deterministic at this scale. As soon as you build an economic model, it's possible it stops working because its existence influences the behavior of the humans its modeling.




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