the dismal science

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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

Lack of perspective: The New York Times wonders why there aren't more female economists, and why relatively few women are studying the dismal science.

From Los Angeles Times • Feb. 5, 2018

That gift-giving might actually be bad is the kind of opinion which breeds a deep mistrust of economists—loathing is perhaps too strong—among those not schooled in the dismal science.

From Economist • Dec. 19, 2017

Economy is called the dismal science because it pretends to be one, disguising its uncertainties and shifting fashions with mathematical formulae.

From After the Rain : how the West lost the East by Vaknin, Samuel