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Article: Plain speaking can make even `dismal science' seem clear
- Article from:
- Chicago Sun-Times
- Article date:
- July 8, 1986
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Television weathermen are sure to give you the latest barometer
reading even though no one except aircraft pilots gives a raindrop
about barometric pressure. Or, to be more accurate, even though
almost no one in this age has any real idea of what a barometer
reading may mean.
Some folks think economists are as bad as TV weathermen. That's
overstating the case. However, both can blather on and on and both
can make much of arcane statistics. And both can be miserably wrong.
When talking about economists, it is usual if not mandatory to
refer to their field of study as the "dismal science." Usually the
speaker is trying to condemn economics as difficult, murky, boring,
in the same sense ...
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