Aspect Quote by Thomas Carlyle

Coining "Dismal Science" as a nickname for Political Economy

— Thomas Carlyle

Respectable Professors of the Dismal Science.

— Thomas Carlyle

“Unlike sociology, a pariah science that is always under suspicion for its supposed political leanings, and from which the powerful expect nothing but a…

— Pierre Bourdieu

Economics never was a dismal science. I should be a realistic science.

— Paul Samuelson

Unfortunately, a lot of economists wanted to make their subject a science. So the more what you do resembles physics or chemistry, the more…

— Ha-Joon Chang

A loving and fierce defense of economics as a science.

— Robert Krulwich

Political Economy as a branch of science is extremely modern; but the subject with which its enquiries are conversant has in all ages necessarily…

— John Stuart Mill

Politics is not a science, as the professors are apt to suppose. It is an art.

— Otto von Bismarck

“That economics has a considerable conceptual apparatus with an appropriate terminology can not be a serious ground for complaint. Economic phenomena, ideas, instruments of…

— John Kenneth Galbraith

Economics never was a dismal science. It should be a realistic science.

— Paul Samuelson

“Mostly what is called political science seems to me a device, invented by university teachers, for avoiding that dangerous subject politics, without achieving science.”

— Alfred Cobban

Economics has been called the dismal science. Once you get to understand it, you may not find it so dismal, but you don't find…

— Jean Chretien