The dismal science
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The dismal science is a derogatory term for the discipline of economics.[1] Thomas Carlyle used the phrase in his 1849 essay "Occasional Discourse on the Negro Question" in contrast with the then-familiar phrase "gay science" used to refer to the art of troubadours.