Economiaciência

Economiaciência is a term used in Portuguese-language discourse to denote an interdisciplinary approach to studying economic phenomena that emphasizes the scientific method, empirical validation, and rigorous modeling. It signals a commitment to testable theories, falsifiability, transparent data practices, and the integration of economics with methods from the natural and data sciences.

The scope of economiaciência includes theoretical and empirical work in microeconomics and macroeconomics, but also draws from econometrics, experimental economics, behavioral economics, computational economics, and data science. Researchers may employ randomized controlled trials, natural experiments, large-scale observational studies, machine learning, agent-based and complexity-based models, and simulations to analyze markets, institutions, policies, and economic dynamics.

Status and history are not uniform across academia. Economiaciência is not universally recognized as a formal, standalone discipline; rather, it represents a programmatic emphasis within economics and related fields that prioritizes replicability, transparency, and cross-disciplinary methods. It reflects broader trends toward open science, data-driven inquiry, and the use of computational tools to understand complex economic systems.

Applications and topics commonly associated with economiaciência include market design, innovation and growth, climate and environmental economics, health economics, development and inequality, and policy evaluation. Critics caution that the term can be ambiguous or overlapping with existing fields, and that rigorous standards and clear definitions are essential to avoid fragmentation within the broader scientific study of economics.

See also: economics, econometrics, experimental economics, computational economics, data science.