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Paul Romer of the New York Stern School of Business has talked about the crisis of identifiability[1] which makes most macroeconomics non-falsifiable and completely isolates economists from ever being wrong in their theories. He's likened this to the crisis with string theory in physics.

[1] https://paulromer.net/the-trouble-with-macro/WP-Trouble.pdf



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