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First, economics is a social science, so it seeks to explain something about society. But economics is different from these other social sciences, because of what economists study and how they study it. Without the government, the market as a system would not last two minutes. Encountering the worldly philosophers in my firstyear history of western civ course, and then again with the same professor. Robert heilbroners the worldly philosophers summary of chapter ii economic revolution knowledge economy mid 1900s industrial revolution 17601820 adam smith 17231790, wealth of nations 1776 16th18th century. Subsection f compares webers philosophy of science with heilbroners philosophy of economics qua science.