Is Banking a Science?

>>7804122
uses economics and maths and psychology and statistics and comp sci., so I guess you could argue it's a mixture of a ton of different sciences

>>7804122
Bump for science!

banking is not a science in the same way that car mechanics is not a science

you are not explicitly _investigating_ something. and whenever you are learning something new about your topic, it is not about a natural system but a manmade system. you may say that science also studies man, of course, or that the product of human interactions, yes. but banking is not the study of this, economy is a study of something like this, but banking is a profession not a science

>>7804122
Economics is a psuedo-science and I suppose banking is a sub-category or application of economics. Calling it a psuedo-science not in a derogatory sense, just saying it has some logical flow to it but it's not an actual science.

>>7804685
Economics is a 'soft science'. It applies the scientific method to something that isn't part of nature. It's finding patterns in data and whatnot. A peusdo-science would be something new age like crystal healing or essential oils effecting health or mainstream psychology, ect. Whereas It's just superstition amd nonsense with a 'scientific' looking facade.

Buy yeah, banking is a profession or industry. Like accounting isn't a science either, it's just applied mathematics.

>>7804122
banking is an industry, it is not science.
People operating banks apply finance and econometric models to help them make decisions.
Econometric is the application of statistical models to finance / economic data.

>>7804122
Economics and banking aren't science in any sense and should be on /biz/ only.

>>7804732
Economics is about as scientific as political "science."