Gonzalez explores the theoretical difficulty of using prediction to classify economics as a science. After providing a background on the role of prediction in science as a whole, he employs
the methodological framework of the social sciences to analyze if prediction in economics renders it as a scientific discipline. Gonzalez views the use of rationality and empirical approaches
to assess the epistemology and methodology of economic prediction, discerns the limits of prediction in economics, and outlines the interrelationship of prediction and prescription (policy,
planning, practical measures, and so forth) as the key to future developments in the discipline.
