Prime Minister Mark Carney hailed a new and aggressive NATO target to boost military spending, while acknowledging that other areas might get cut back.
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.
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.