If economics is a science, how do you run an experiment?
Let’s say you want to see how phenomenon X scales as a function of population, and create a model X(p)
How do you set up N identical scenarios and, ceteris paribus, vary the population? You cannot.
Two separate nations are distinct systems. Setting up 2 identical factories next door, one with 100 staff and one with 1000 staff would be a monumental waste of effort, and what if the geographical separation, or airflow, or cloud cover, or… affected the experiment?
Let’s say you run a single economic experiment. How do you reproduce it? How does your counterpart reproduce it?