Borrowing scientific methods has never made economics genuinely scientific

Evidence

Everyone since the eighteenth century has sought to leverage their credibility in the history of economics with “science,” most frequently through appropriation of mathematical models and/or methods; alas, never has it turned out to be the Philosopher’s Stone. — Philip Mirowski, Never Let a Serious Crisis Go to Waste, 481

Categorization

• XREF: connects to: Economics functions as conflict over belief rather than objective science — Yanis Varoufakis, Technofeudalism: What Killed Capitalism, 779; Economists’ appeals to science deflected attention from their own failure — Philip Mirowski, Never Let a Serious Crisis Go to Waste, 483; Each field of research must develop its own method rather than borrow natural-science method — Antonio Gramsci, Selections from the Prison Notebooks, 1560 (+1 more)

Broader Connections

• Economics functions as conflict over belief rather than objective science #corroborates (0.80) — Yanis Varoufakis, Technofeudalism, 779
• Economists’ appeals to science deflected attention from their own failure #corroborates (0.72) — Philip Mirowski, Never Let a Serious Crisis Go to Waste, 483