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By: GDP Falls 6.1% | The Big Picture

GDP Falls 6.1% | The Big Picture — Wed, 29 Apr 2009 14:25:09 +0000

[...] consensus was (once again) too bullish. Why do they call it the dismal science if most practitioners are consistently [...]

By: Fresh Politics

Fresh Politics — Wed, 11 May 2005 19:06:39 +0000

Dismal Day for the Dismal Scientist

From the Financial Times, US real wages fall at fastest rate in 14 years:

Inflation rose 3.1 per cent in the year to March but salaries climbed just 2.4 per cent, according to the Employment Cost Index. In the final three months of 2004, real wages …

By: apostropher

apostropher — Tue, 22 Mar 2005 15:14:01 +0000

Neuroeconomics

Economics may be “the dismal science,” but as science goes, it’s as soft and ideological a science as any of the other social sciences, despite using lots and lots of numbers. Almost every economic model rests on the assumption of…