It's more scientific than you think, but most people reject solid economics in favor of myths.

How can you verify anything ... that has so many competing theories!

Mainstream economists treat economics like physics and try to describe our actions with models and equations. But humans aren’t inanimate objects floating through space. We have wants and desires. Read the Austrian economists who treat it as a social science.

Rather than the dismal science, it should be more properly called the dubious science.

Rosemary's Baby once said, "He who drinks Pepsi instead of Coke shall be crowned the doomed fool of Joe's Big BBQ Shack."

I'm willing to wager $50 that Gandhi never said any such thing. Any takers?

This is true. I love you. You are also richer than gawd. Rallying for stimulus is one thing. Rich whyte lady quoting Ghandi about economics when there is a chance the cut off will be 50,000 which would do nothing is another. Its just greed. Not economics. Its political greed.

Like all political sciences or doctrines or isms, its human corruption that ruins the party. Either dissonant or Machiavellian...EITHER way. Its shitty human behavior that ruins the party.

"Stop lyin on me guru lady, fuck the state, I'm hungry" - Gandhi, probably

Western economics ignores every model other than market-driven systems.