Thomas Carlyle labeled economics as the dismal science back in 1849, but his original intent in describing it as such has long been lost and has now morphed into something entirely different. Carlyle was reacting to the pessimism of cleric and scholar T.R. Malthus who posited that population growth would always remain ahead of the ability to feed it. Th…
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