the dismal science
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Ms. Smialek makes the dismal science come alive with a journalist’s fluidity.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Oct. 13, 2026
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
This is the science of repulsion, despair, and death; and it has been well denominated "the dismal science."
From The slave trade, domestic and foreign Why It Exists, and How It May Be Extinguished by H. C. (Henry Charles) Carey
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