On: How economics became a religion

[ThomPete]

Understanding the future by understanding the past is the classic mistake of economics. It is this unfounded premise that has led them far far away from anything useful.

You could claim the same thing about Astrology. Doesn't change that it's fundamentally not a very useful disciplin to explain anything about the future what so ever and thus as a tool for deciding about the future more or less useless.

[lottin → ThomPete]

Excuse me, but this is a lot of nonsense. All empirical sciences infer the future from past observations.

[ThomPete → lottin]

and most of them fail including ecomics exactly because human systems arent adheering to the same simple rules as ex natural sciences.