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For those curious about the name of this blog, the word “dismal” is used positively; it’s a badge of honour reflecting the economics profession’s objection to slavery, which led Thomas Carlyle (1849) to brand it “…a dreary, desolate and, indeed, quite abject and distressing one; what we might call, by way of eminence, the dismal science”.