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

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 Carey, H. C. (Henry Charles)