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dismal science
noun
- the dismal sciencea name for economics coined by Thomas Carlyle
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Carlyle called it "the dismal science," and most books on the subject are dismal enough to justify the term.
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"If it were not for your dismal science," he is sure to add; and to fire him I lay it to the defects of early training.
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But even he who has read only thus far must know that political economy is no cold-blooded or dismal science, as people say.
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He afterwards devoted himself to lecturing in London, and was for many years the most ardent apostle of the 'dismal science.'
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It was this way of looking at things that gave to political economy the name of the dismal science.
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