dismal science

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Meaning: (idiomatic,sometimesderogatory,sometimeshumorous,usually with "the")Economicsor the field ofpolitical economy.1849,Thomas Carlyle, “Occasional Discourse on the Negro Question,”, inFraser's Magazine for Town and Country, volume40, pages530–531:[N]ot a "gay science," but a rueful—which finds the secret of this universe in "supply and demand" . . . a dreary, desolate and, indeed, quite abject and distressing one; what we might call, by way of eminence, thedismal science.1973, William R. Doerner, "‘Crypto Servants’ and Socialism(review ofEconomics and the Public PurposebyJohn Kenneth Galbraith),"Time, 8 Oct.:Galbraith has managed to write with wit and style about the ‘dismal science’ of economics.2002, E. B. Kapstein, “TwoDismal SciencesAre Better Than One—Economics and the Study of National Security”, inInternational Security, volume27, number 3, page160:TwoDismal Sciences: Economics and National Security—Writing during World War II, J. B. Condliffe lamented, "Economists have not contributed in very large measure to the recent outpouring of publications on the causes, conduct, and consequences of war." By the turn of the millennium, however, the situation had changed.

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