Great comment. Incidentally, have you come across Deirdre Mccloskey, I&#x27;ve been reading her book &#x27;Bourgeois Dignity: Why Economics Can&#x27;t Explain the Modern World&#x27; and finding it really interesting. Economics is a social science, taking measurements &#x2F; accumulating data and theorising on that data causes changes in behaviour. Just sitting around talking about economics, or your weekly budget, drives changes in behaviour.<p>As a layperson with a bit of an interest in economics I don&#x27;t really see how, as the article says &quot;econ is now a rogue branch of applied math&quot;. More like economics uses applied maths, or something like that. It&#x27;s a &#x27;social science&#x27;, we can&#x27;t reveal the laws (let&#x27;s call them &#x27;habits&#x27;) of economics like we do The Laws of Nature, because circumstances change -both globally and locally (macro &#x2F; micro)- and new economic phenomenon emerge.<p>It&#x27;d be interesting to see what future historians have to say about present day economics.