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A novel por peter mountford disponible en rakuten kobo. The dismal science is peter mountfords debut novel a young mans guide to late capitalism won the 2012 washington state book award in fiction, and was a. The term drew a contrast with the thenfamiliar use of the phrase gay science to refer to song and verse writing. Why economics is really called the dismal science the. It also is a brilliant extrapolation of the economists dismal science into a metaphor for the difficult fate of any living, breathing, dying human being. Thomas carlyle, a scottish writer and philosopher, called economics the dismal science in reference to thomas.
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