The dismal science, it seems, is an optimistic profession.
To the uninitiated, economics has always been a dismal science.
You are only an economist, practitioner of the dismal science.
The dismal science attracts more sober-suited math geeks than poetic seekers.
Did Thomas Carlyle ever make his peace with the dismal science?
The key insight of the dismal science bears repeating: there is no free lunch.
This Malthusian and Ricardian model of growth and its limits led Carlyle to characterize economics as the "dismal science."
Here, let me remind you that there is a reason why economics is called "the dismal science".
No, it is "a dreary, desolate, and indeed quite abject and distressing one; what we might call, by way of eminence, the dismal science."
Tim Harford's 2005 bestseller, "the Undercover Economist", was a book that has helped shift that perception by bringing the not-so-dismal science to a wider audience.
