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Letter: Science vs economics

Published 17 December 2013

From Bruce Dinham

Mark van Vugt’s article looked at Darwinian economics (23 November, p 30). Science, which aims to describe the real world, is based on the laws of physics and chemistry with defined units of measure. Economics, in the artificial world of money, is based on questionable and unreliable assumptions about human behaviour, and uses undefined and variable units of measure. There is no science in it.
Hawthorn, South Australia

Issue no. 2948 published 21 December 2013

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