The secret history of the dismal science. Part I. Economics, religion and race in the 19th century by David M. Levy and Sandra J. Peart publhished by Library of Economics and liberty (1/2001), indicated by Alexandre A. Rocha. “Everyone knows that economics is the dismal science. And almost everyone knows that it was given this description by Thomas Carlyle, who was inspired to coin the phrase by T. R. Malthus’s gloomy prediction that population would always grow faster food, dooming mankind to unending poverty and hardship.”
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