the dismal science

Economics is often called the “dismal science,” and let me tell you, most of those messages were also pretty dismal.

If economics is "the dismal science," should we start calling polling "the abysmal science"?

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.

In a field sometimes derided as the “dismal science,” Dr. Bailey brought an infectious enthusiasm for economics and the ability of economists to shape society.

Professor Oster challenged the 19th-century Scottish essayist Thomas Carlyle’s description of economics as “the dismal science” as she helped shape the curriculum of the management school, which began granting master of business administration degrees in the late 1990s.