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dismal science

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dismal science
n
(Economics) the. a name for economics coined by Thomas Carlyle, the Scottish essayist and historian (1795-1881)


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WHEN ECONOMISTS COLLIDE You wouldn't expect practitioners of the dismal science to be so pumped up.
While Alex Salmond was studying the dismal science - economics - in the academic birthplace of Thatcherism, I was studying natural science in the academic home of the enlightenment.
In the dismal science money can easily be created and it is never actually destroyed - it just changes hands.
 
 
 
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