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To: GUSTAVE JAEGER who wrote (14313)	9/6/1999 11:59:00 PM
From: Neocon	Respond to of 17770

Well, it is an interesting philosophical problem: can one build a "science" on statistical analyses and simplified models of real world events? If not, then there are no social sciences, which is a reasonable position. I would argue that if one makes allowances for a lesser degree of exactitude, one can find usable patterns, float causal explanations with a high degree of confidence, and gain in predictive accuracy, and therefore that it is legitimate to consider there to be social sciences, among them economics....