Eur. Phys. J. Special Topics 225, 3121-3125 (2016)
https://doi.org/10.1140/epjst/e2016-60103-8

Regular Article

Can economics afford not to become natural science?

¹ Saha Institute of Nuclear Physics, Kolkata 700064, India
² Economic Research Unit, Indian Statistical Institute, Kolkata 700108, India

^a e-mail: bikask.chakrabarti@saha.ac.in

Received: 7 April 2016
Revised: 15 September 2016
Published online: 22 December 2016

Abstract

I address here the reverse and more general question: “Can economics afford not to become a natural science?”. I argue that epistemologically economics can only belong to, and join eventually, the natural sciences, avoiding its charming literary proses on history of mankind employing seemingly scientific postures.