Economics in its most abstract representation should still be considered a natural science. Even in non-human systems the law of supply and demand still exists.
Example:
There's an ecosystem with wombats and money trees. Originally the money tree is in very great supply, but as time goes on the wombats consume more of the money trees than are replacing the ones that have been consumed. So the wombats have to search harder for money trees.
The wombats might all die out. The end.
As supply decreases the value of the supply increases.
I really think that economics still belongs under natural sciences because the ramifications of economic science can be seen everywhere, even in wombats and the elusive money tree.
-Paul Derry
