Comments on: The Dismal Science http://healthcare-economist.com/2006/05/21/the-dismal-science/ An unbiased look at today's health care issues Tue, 06 Jan 2009 02:24:13 +0000 http://wordpress.org/?v=2.7 hourly 1 By: Louise Staley http://healthcare-economist.com/2006/05/21/the-dismal-science/comment-page-1/#comment-114 Louise Staley Tue, 23 May 2006 00:09:42 +0000 http://healthcare-economist.com/2006/05/21/the-dismal-science/#comment-114 Economics is NOT known as the dismal science because of Malthus as the site you link to makes clear: "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 than food, dooming mankind to unending poverty and hardship. <b>While this story is well-known, it is also wrong, so wrong that it is hard to imagine a story that is farther from the truth.</b>" Economics is NOT known as the dismal science because of Malthus as the site you link to makes clear:

“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 than food, dooming mankind to unending poverty and hardship. While this story is well-known, it is also wrong, so wrong that it is hard to imagine a story that is farther from the truth.“

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