dismal science
nounEtymology
Coined by Thomas Carlyle in 1849, a play on gay science (“poetry”).
Definitions
Economics or the field of political economy.
- [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, the dismal science.
- Galbraith has managed to write with wit and style about the ‘dismal science’ of economics.
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