How is economics a "social science"?

It's a "social" science instead of a real science because it's like meteorology - leading economists can explain things after they happen, but they have no clue how to predict what will happen or how to control what is happening.

When the best economist in the world is Alan Greenspan, you know it's not rocket science.

At least rocket scientists got Neil Armstrong back from the moon. If economists were running NASA, they'd still be writing new theories about why we lost contact with Apollo as soon as it cleared the gantry and blasted off into outer space and never came back.

It's not in the finance section because people in finance work with real money, so they know better than to do things like nationalize GM. Economists mainly just make up hand waving BS to legitimize whatever disastrous policy the current government wants to do.

I studied basic economics in college. Ever since then, I've been watching what the leading economists do and trying to relate it to the basic fundamentals of economics. After 25 years, I've determined that what leading economists do have absolutely nothing to do with the basic fundamentals of economics, and mainly economists just pander to whoever is in charge and tell them whatever they want to hear.

Economics is politics. It has nothing to do with science or anythinng else that's related to having a real job.
 
Economics is usually considered a social science because it si the study of how people make decisions on what to purchase with the limited assets they posess. Thus, it involves psychology and sociology and politics, all of which are among the human or social sciences.
 
Economics studies combined effect of decisions taken by millions of people within the society. In this way, it is similar to Politics and Sociology.

Finance means two things:
- a sub-field of economics studying the combined effect of financial decisions.
- a sub-field of business teaching you how to make these decisions.
 
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