e/Dismal Science

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has gloss	eng: The dismal science is a derogatory alternative name for economics devised by the Victorian historian Thomas Carlyle in the 19th century. The term is an inversion of the phrase "gay science," meaning "life-enhancing knowledge." This was a familiar expression at the time, and was later adopted as the title of a book by Nietzsche (see The Gay Science).
lexicalization	eng: Dismal Science
lexicalization	eng: the dismal science
instance of	c/Economics aphorisms