dismal science
Britishnoun
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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
Carlyle called it "the dismal science," and most books on the subject are dismal enough to justify the term.
From The Common Sense of Socialism A Series of Letters Addressed to Jonathan Edwards, of Pittsburg by John Spargo
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