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Sometimes it was actually NOT such a great idea when it DID get closely meshed with the human sciences - though perhaps in the instance I just dug up inhuman science might be a better description!
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I was looking up the origin of economic as a DISMAL science when I ran into this exceptionay dismal example ..
http://www.economicshelp.org/2008/07/why-is-econom...
Here's the most germane portion of this truly shocking interpretation:
From the Blog:
It appears that the term 'dismal science' was first coined by Thomas Carlyle, in December 1849, “Occasional Discourse on the Negro Question” in the London monthly Fraser’s Magazine.
In particular, Carlyle was criticising the economists belief in supply and demand which stood in sharp contrast to his idealised view of a slave society. Carlyle, like many of the Victorian age, considered blacks to be inferior to whites (he referred to blacks as ("two-legged cattle") and therefore these non whites needed the 'beneficient whip' to be useful to society. This view, he held, justified slavery as a model for society, and he criticised those economists and evangelists who believed in equality and freedom of the people. This view on equality was held by thinkers such as John Stuart Mill, Harriet Martineau and Charles Darwin. But, at the time many such as Carlyle, Dickens and Alfred Tennyson did not hold this belief.
Carlyle's view on Economics was
"quite abject and distressing...dismal science...led by sacred cause of Black Emancipation."
Thus in a nutshell, Carlyle dislike economics because of its support for black emancipation and the ending of slavery
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