Saturday, August 14, 2010

The Dismal Science

Here,are two articles which provide a simple example of there is a reason why economics can justly be called the dismal science*:

Any study that no one learns from is justly called dismal.

I'm not making this up, you know.**


*Thomas Carlyle in Occasional Discourse on the Negro Question, in which he was arguing for the reintroduction of slavery as a means to regulate the labor market in the West Indies.

**
Anna Russell.

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