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Kilkenomics: A Festival Where the ‘Dismal Science’ Meets Comedy
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Thu, 7 Mar 2013
Published with permission from Knowledge @ Wharton , Wharton’s online business journal. British historian Thomas Carlyle in 1849 described economics as the “dismal science.” Most economists have helped maintain that reputation over the past century by being a generally humorless bunch. For the pas…