This paper revisits the question of whether economics can be considered a science from the theoretical framework of Ideology and Science and the Economics of Belonging. It argues that economics is a hybrid discipline combining ideological components, closed formal systems, and potential scientific cores. The article introduces a methodological procedure of disentangle, which separates ideological assumptions, formal structures, and empirically testable elements across different schools of thought. Applying this framework to neoclassical economics, Marxism, Keynesianism, behavioral economics, and institutionalism, the paper identifies partial scientific contributions while highlighting their limitations when detached from real institutions and social belonging structures. The Economics of Belonging is proposed as an integrative framework that reorganizes these contributions around institutional analysis, middle-class formation, and global belonging systems. The paper concludes that economics becomes a science only under conditions of empirical openness, institutional grounding, and continuous revision.
Carlos Federico Obregon Diaz (Fri,) studied this question.