This is not a scientific debate, we don't have the time and resources for a prediction and waiting for it to happen.

For all else, read a peer-reviewed economic science journal.

There are thousands of relatively simple economic rules that easily meet highest empirical standards, especially under experimental or ceteris paribus conditions.

Some of them have even the robustness of natural laws, such as the observation that deficits are not sustainable or the inevitability of market failures under certain conditions. There's for example not a single known commercial unemployment insurance in the world (due to two especially severe market failures, excluding con artist endeavours).
Finally, there are even hundreds of management rules that can be proved (and were proved) with math just like math rules themselves, for example rules for optimising production under known conditions.


Economic science is a science, it's understood and defined as such. Those who doubt it can feel free to prove it, but they are powerless feeble voices against the existing definition of the meaning, sound and graphic of the word "science".
They can't argue that economic science is no science without ignoring the real-world business of ten thousands of economic researchers.

This stupid questioning whether economic science is a true science always leaves an impression about the questioner on me that's probably beyond the forum etiquette. Those people simply do not grasp social sciences, and certainly don't seem to attempt it.


Sure, some (or many) economists are no scientists at all, many have forgotten what they were taught about scientific work. There are lots of loudmouths who proclaim a lot of economic nonsense. Clueless people can see those loudmouths and make the mistake t believe that they were representative. Fact is, even natural sciences have such loudmouth (see cold fusion).
There are furthermore more economists than natural scientists in contact with a wide public audience and it's especially easy to earn good money with being a loudmouth as economist in comparison with being one as physicist.



This whole strain of the discussion is moot, and off-topic, of course. Even if economist s were not working scientifically, they would still be the best experts around for explaining "How to fix the economy".
Economics-bashing is thus futile.