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Reproducibility is the load-bearing constraint in any empirical discipline. A finding that cannot be independently verified remains a hypothesis until it is.
Economics is moving toward greater empiricism and invention as a field, but that shift is arriving alongside sharp questions about whether the work holds up to replication and about what role AI is playing in generating it.
The field's methodological direction carries a specific consequence. Theoretical work in economics has its own internal logic: assumptions and derivations are visible in the text.
It depends on data and on the analytical choices made at every stage between collection and conclusion. When a study cannot be replicated, the failure can sit at any one of those points.
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