Dismal Science Quotes
- Social Science, is not a 'gay science' but rueful, which finds the secret of this universe in 'supply and demand' and reduces the duty of… — Thomas Carlyle
- Coining "Dismal Science" as a nickname for Political Economy — Thomas Carlyle
- Respectable Professors of the Dismal Science. — Thomas Carlyle
- The main achievement of economics is that it has provided a theory of peaceful human cooperation. This is why the harbingers of violent conflict have… — Ludwig von Mises
- Economics is uncertain because its fundamental subject matter is not money but human action. That's why economics is not the dismal science, it's no science… — Julian Baggini
- Economics never was a dismal science. I should be a realistic science. — Paul Samuelson
- It is no crime to be ignorant of economics, which is, after all, a specialized discipline and one that most people consider to be a… — Murray Rothbard
- What we might call, by way of eminence, the Dismal Science — Thomas Carlyle