Sentences with phrase «dismal science»

To this day, the proper mixture of dismal science and effervescent humanity is the subject of heated debate, not to metion a number of best - selling books.

Although this year's election saw some other well - known economists, including Rachel Reeves and Alex Salmond, safely returned to the House of Commons, this has been an unusually dark time for the traditionally dismal science.

Other works in the exhibition, such as the slide show Dismal Science, Chapter 8 of the larger project Fish Story (1989 — 92), or the film The Forgotten Space (2010), look closely at the maritime economy and its impact on globalization.

I should say, like some we have heard of; no, a dreary, desolate and, indeed, quite abject and distressing one; what we might call, by way of eminence, the dismal science.

Behavioural economics arrived in my consciousness via a 2001 piece in the New York Times Magazine profiling Richard Thaler, one of the leaders of this radical movement in the dismal science.

Historian Thomas Carlyle once famously called economics the «dismal science.»

The current debate has turned out to be one of the most important ones in years among economists, who half - jokingly refer to their field as the dismal science.

Indeed the dismal science isn't just about numbers.

Though derogatively called «the dismal science,» economics was originally a «moral science.»

The so - called «dismal science» is a powerful tool for wealth creation, but also for healing broken communities.

[6] Human Goods, Economic Evils; A Moral Look at the Dismal Science (ISI Books, 2007).

Even those who know nothing else about economics know that its nickname is «the dismal science.»

It strikes me as difficult to square the demands of the gospel with the idea that economics is a dismal science.

Human Goods, Economic Evils - A Moral Approach to the Dismal Science by Edward Hadas, Foreword by Stratford Caldecott, ISI Books, Wilmington, Delaware USA, 400pp, $ 22

In the early 19th century, economists were accused of practicing the «dismal science,» a reputation which flowed from Thomas Malthus's deeply pessimistic predictions.

In my own profession of journalism it is common enough to deride economists as practitioners of the «dismal science.»

The economics of early childhood policy: What the dismal science has to say about investing in children.

Its 313 pages are categorised by the publishers under «economics», but this work's ambition extends far beyond the dismal science.

Still, all biophysical economists see only very bleak prospects for the future of modern civilization, putting a whole new spin on the phrase «the dismal science.»

Story number 1 is from the dismal science, economics.

Perhaps more important, Elaine's work reminded us all of the power of the arts — even in conveying lessons about economics — a field that the 19th century Historian Thomas Carlyle called «The Dismal Science.»

«We are all aware of the dismal science test scores for California students,» says Lorie Topinka, the Academy's assistant director of education.

«The Economics of Early - Childhood Policy: What the Dismal Science Has to Say About Investing in Children»

Lighting Up the «Dismal Science» [7.13.11] A wonderful example of «deeper learning» by high school students is «Economics Illustrated,» a book self - published by 45 tenth gradestudents at High Tech High in San Diego.

Dubbed the «dismal science» by 19th century historian Thomas Carlyle, economics is the study of how goods and services are produced, distributed, and consumed.

No wonder economics became known as the «dismal science.»

Peter Mountford is the author of the novels A Young Man's Guide to Late Capitalism and The Dismal Science.

Peter Frumhoff of the Union of Concerned Scientists criticizes their take on the science in a piece titled, «Dismal Science at The Wall Street Journal.»

Despite all its conflicts of interest the dismal science surely does a better job at maintaining some integrity than the puffed - up one for which Guy Callendar was such an excellent but neglected pioneer.

In fact, Thomas Carlyle (1795 — 1881) called economics «the dismal science» in direct reference to the work of the Rev. Thomas Malthus, because the Malthuisian conclusions were so unappetizing — that sooner or later rising human populations would outstrip the world's capacity to provide for them.

He should consider that it has long been known as «the dismal science», so - named by Thomas Carlyle, because of the failed predictions of Thomas Malthus.

HARRY Truman famously asked to be sent a one - armed economist, having tired of exponents of the dismal science proclaiming «On the one hand, this» and «On the other hand, that».

Again, the constrast with the environmentalist Old Right — think Malthus's «dismal science» and Hardin's «Tragedy of the Commons» could hardly be more striking.

Pigou proposed making the manufacturer and customer foot the bill for these unacknowledged costs — «internalizing the externalities,» in the cryptic language of the dismal science.

The record of the dismal science is so pathetic, I'm surprised anyone takes what economists have to say seriously.

Born of the low - growth agricultural economies of 18th century Europe, the dismal science to this day remains focused on the question of how to most efficiently distribute scarce resources, not on how to create new ones — this despite two centuries of rapid economic growth driven by disruptive technologies, from the steam engine to electricity to the Internet.

In David Fraser's excellent Privacy Law Blog I learn that Steven Levitt and Stephen Dubner have a blog called Freakonomics, named after their book that takes an unconventional tack in the dismal science and is good reading (can't believe that I, a product of the usual wretched micro - and macro-economics courses, said that about one of the most over-rated disciplines in the... but that's another story).