Economics is NOT a science

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Borrowing the prestige of scientific language and methods from the biological sciences, many social scientists have envisioned and tried to effect an objective, precise, and strictly replicable set of techniques — a set of techniques that gives impartial and quantitative answers.

Thus most forms of formal policy analysis and cost-benefit analysis manage, through heroic assumptions and an implausible metric for comparing incommensurate variables, to produce a quantitative answer to thorny questions. They achieve impartiality, precision, and replicability at the cost of accuracy. — James C. Scott, Seeing like a State (1998)

• Accounting for water flows
• MSNBC’s Chris Hayes: ‘The Time For Choosing Sides On Climate Change Is Now’
• Oil ‘Advocate’ Mary Landrieu On Drilling: ‘You Don’t Have To Drill On Every Square Inch Of Land’
• World’s Largest Mining Firm: ‘In A Carbon Constrained World, Coal Is Going To Decline. And Frankly It Should.’
• Shale Shocked: Studies Tie Rise Of Significant Earthquakes In U.S. Midcontinent To Wastewater Injection
• WMO: Record Arctic Sea Ice Melt And Weather Extremes Show That ‘Climate Change Is Taking Place Before Our Eyes’
• Poll: Superstorm Sandy Linked To Climate Change By 69% Of New Yorkers, Including 73% Of Independents
• December 4 News: Senate Democrats Try To Force Vote On Climate Change
• A day to celebrate – South Korea abandons ‘scientific’ whaling plan
• A powerful vote for free speech – thanks to Shell