ECONOMICS: HISTORY, DOCTRINE, SCIENCE, ART
探讨经济学的本质,认为经济学试图解释独特的历史事件,经济学说多为逻辑片段,缺乏可检验命题,但批评这一点是对波普尔思想的误用。经济学科学是一个持续发现的过程,很大程度上是一门艺术。
Economics tries to explain unique chains of historical events. Economic doctrines, however, are mostly pieces of logics with few references to testable propositions. However, to criticize this lack of ‘testable hypotheses’ is a misapplication of Popper's ideas. History being unique, empirical propositions in economics have to be tailored to individual cases. Economic doctrines, like a chess handbook, are a collection of prefabricated elements promising to be helpful in this task. Economic science is a process of continuous discovery and thus, like all scientific discovery, to large extent an art.