Is Macroeconomics a Science?

William Barnett

MPRA Paper from University Library of Munich, Germany

Abstract: This paper was written as the first draft of the invited Foreword for the book, Money and the Economy, by Apostolos Serletis. The paper provides a critical view of those areas in which methodology in economics deviates from that in the physical sciences, provides examples and illustrations of those deviations, and emphasizes those areas of and approaches to economic research that most closely correspond with the nature of research in the physical sciences.

Keywords: science; social science; politics; Federal Reserve; monetary policy (search for similar items in EconPapers)
JEL-codes: A10 A11 B20 B41 C00 (search for similar items in EconPapers)
Date: 2006-01-30
New Economics Papers: this item is included in nep-cba, nep-hpe, nep-mon, nep-pke and nep-sog
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