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the dismal science
"The dismal science" is a derogatory alternative name for economics coined by the Victorian historian Thomas Carlyle in the 19th century. The term drew a contrast with the then-familiar use of the phrase "gay science" to refer to song and verse writing.〔The latter phrase later appeared as the title of a book by Nietzsche: ''The Gay Science''.〕
==Origin==
The phrase "the dismal science" first occurs in Thomas Carlyle's 1849 tract called ''Occasional Discourse on the Negro Question'', in which he argued in favor of reintroducing slavery in order to regulate the labor market in the West Indies:
It was "dismal" in "find() the secret of this Universe in 'supply and demand,' and reducing the duty of human governors to that of letting men alone". Instead, the "idle Black man in the West Indies" should be "''compelled'' to work as he was fit, and to ''do'' the Maker's will who had constructed him".〔As quoted in Joseph Persky, 1990. "Retrospectives: A Dismal Romantic," ''Journal of Economic Perspectives'', 4(4), pp. 167-169 .〕
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