Physicists discovered the principles that allowed the building of atomic bombs, x-ray machines, MRIs, GPS, transistors, radio communication... Economics is divided between giving a good description of behavior under markets and an entire field that fails under Goodhart's law https://t.co/pd1kgJshL7
When a Nobel prize winner in your field predicts the USSR was going to surpass the US then 20 years later made the same prediction with new dates then your field is literally worse at making predictions than random chance He was a Nobel Prize winner
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Oh, and "maturity" of the field? The Wealth of Nations was published around 30 years after Newton's Principia
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You should have Maybe "don't criticize astrology unless you've done the star chart for a Capricorn" would have been a better example
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