the dismal science
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If economics can be called the dismal science, I’d argue that eugenics might be called the narcissistic one.
From Slate ● Mar. 19, 2026
If economics is "the dismal science," should we start calling polling "the abysmal science"?
From Salon ● Jan. 8, 2023
You'd think in the 21st century, practitioners of the dismal science would have found some way to control inflation other than putting people out of work.
From Reuters ● Nov. 17, 2022
Lack of perspective: The New York Times wonders why there aren't more female economists, and why relatively few women are studying the dismal science.
From Los Angeles Times ● Feb. 5, 2018
Carlyle's bigoted dislike of Political Economists withheld him from studying their works; and he seems ignorant of the advances that have been made by the "dismal science," or of what it has proved and disproved.
From Thomas Carlyle by John Nichol
