Quote Originally Posted by FDG View Post
Oh, most people in Italy knew that already...

Anyway, @Birdie , economics faculties nowadays are often ideological in nature, especially in the fields of micro- and macroeconomics. I believe those faculties where most of the staff comes from maths, like game theory, IO and such tend to produce less obfuscated kind of research.
I could be misunderstanding you here, but are you saying that economics isn't a real science because there is no way to test ideas before trying them for real and we have to base our current and future decisions based on economic decisions of the past?