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Piketty cited the difference in treatment of economics between the US and the EU as his reason for returning to France. In France, economics is the humanities. It is the study of human interaction as driven by value. In the US, economics is science because there are equations.

Fundamentally, "the humanities" in the United States refers to anything without equations. So. Art, history, literature.