By saying you can give me “two different economic models that make diametrically opposed predictions,” are you conceding there’s no consensus among economists about how economies generally work? If so, my criticism that economics is largely political would be consistent with that fact.

You’re not demanding clarity in the terminology. You’re demanding a face-saving device. I don’t care what you call them: models, theories, frameworks, paradigms, dominant approaches, etc. I’m simply asking for a summary statement of the economic equivalent of Darwinism, relativity, the standard model of particles, the big bang theory, and so on. It doesn’t matter that those scientific paradigms are imperfect. There’s still massive consensus in those fields about what those scientists are generally talking about when they talk about life, species, particles, matter, and energy.

Is there an equivalent kind of consensus in economics? If so, what do economists agree on in those fundamental terms? If not, that’s a major difference between economics and the natural sciences, contrary to economists’ pretenses.