the dismal science
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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
That gift-giving might actually be bad is the kind of opinion which breeds a deep mistrust of economists—loathing is perhaps too strong—among those not schooled in the dismal science.
From Economist • Dec. 19, 2017
He fought most fiercely against the conclusions of political economy, "the dismal science," which, he said, affirmed that men were guided exclusively by their stomachs.
From Brief History of English and American Literature by Beers, Henry A. (Henry Augustin)
