Are economic speculation questions on-topic?
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I once had a question Somewhere Else about an economic stipulation and how its imposition would affect the world. I didn't think it to be a good stipulation and expected to be skewered by answers pointing out huge loopholes. But instead the question was closed.
Rather than repeat the experience naïvely: Is economics "scientific" enough for this community?
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If the alternative economics is sufficiently well specified and can be at least somewhat scientifically analyzed, then I think this is OK without seeing the specific question. An easy pitfall would be to make this alternative economics so speculative that answers end up being too opinion based as opposed to creative extrapolation from well-grounded science.
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