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1 the dismal science
Общая лексика: экономика (шутл.) -
2 the dismal science
"мрачная наука" ( политическая экономия) (так иронически назвал её Т. Карлейль) -
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эк. мрачная наука (согласно распространенному мнению, такое выражение употребил Т. Карлейль после знакомства с работами Т. Мальтуса по отношению к классической политической экономии, предсказывающей неизбежную бедноту рабочего класса; современные исследователи не подтверждают эту информацию и утверждают, что Карлейль употребил это выражение совсем по другому поводу: в статье 1849 г. на страницах журнала "Fraser's Magazine" во время обсуждения проблемы освобождения чернокожих рабов в 1840-х гг. Карлейль очень негативно оценивал последствия этого освобождения — свободные негры не хотели работать за прежнюю заработную плату и в прежних условиях и плантаторы испытывали серьезные проблемы с рабочей силой; Карлейль считал, что рабство предопределено природой, так как одни люди умнее и лучше других и имеют право заставлять других подчиняться, а всеобщая свобода и власть спроса и предложения, которую предлагают классические экономисты, является "мрачной наукой": "the Social Science which finds the secret of this Universe in supply and demand and reduces the duty of human governors to that of letting men aloneis a dreary, desolate, and indeed quite abject and distressing one; what we might call the dismal science"; в следующем номере Карлейлю возражал Дж. Ст. Милль, который утверждал, что Карлейль предлагает установить "закон сильнейшего", но лучшие умы человечества всегда протестовали против подобной тирании; из этой дискуссии и родился ярлык "мрачная наука", которым стали обозначать политическую экономию)See: -
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Общая лексика: "мрачная наука" (i.e. economics (Thomas Carlyle (Томас Карлейль (1795-1881)), after reading Malthus (Томас Роберт Мальтус), called political economy the 'dismal science')) -
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dismal [ˊdɪzmǝl]1. a1) мра́чный, уны́лый;dismal prospects мра́чные перспекти́вы
2) печа́льный; угрю́мый;dismal mood пода́вленное настрое́ние
3) гнету́щий;dismal weather мра́чная, гнету́щая пого́да
4) разг. сла́бый, невырази́тельный◊the dismal science шутл. эконо́мика
2. n (the dismals) pl пода́вленное настрое́ние; печа́льные обстоя́тельства -
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['saɪən(t)s]сущ.1) наукаto advance / foster / promote science — двигать науку, развивать науку
- environmental scienceThe development of the photographic image is both an art and a science. — Проявка фотоизображения - это и искусство, и наука.
- information science
- library science
- linguistic science
- military science - space science - natural scienceSyn:study 1.2) = natural / physical science(s) естествознание3) мастерство, искусство, умениеSyn:4) техника, техничностьSyn:5) ( Science) амер.; = Christian Science Христианская наука (религиозная организация протестантской ориентации, основанная в США в 1866 г.)6) уст. знаниеSyn:••the dismal science — мрачнейшая из наук, скучнейшая из наук (об экономической теории; изречение Томаса Карлейля (1795-1881), ставшее крылатым)
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8 -nomics
http:www.worldwidewords.org/topicalwords/tw-nom1.htmPoor old Thomas Carlyle, permanently and irretrievably burdened with having described economics as “the dismal science”. He was really talking about political economy, at the time a slightly different beast. But whatever one’s view of economics (I failed the only exam I ever took in the subject, so may be considered biased), lexicographically speaking it has been a fruitful term.These opaque musings were prompted by what journalists have started to call Enronomics, in reference to the accounting practices of the failed US corporation Enron and their implications for the Bush administration. It’s not as popular yet as Enrongate for the same imbroglio, but shows slight signs of fashionableness, having appeared in several US newspapers recently, and having even made it across the Atlantic to a British Sunday newspaper within hours. However, its chances of taking a permanent place in the language seem vanishingly small.Before we tar journalists too heavily with the brush of knee-jerk word invention for the sake of novelty, in fairness it has to be said that people have been borrowing that ending for at least 150 years. Agronomics, for example, was coined in the 1860s as a term for what is now often called agronomy, and ergonomics was invented about 1950.The Greek original of economics splits nicely in two to make -nomics, since its source was oikos, house, plus nemein, to manage (so economics literally means “household management”, which really brings it back to earth, or at least to home and hearth).But its move into the overtly political arena really dates from late 1969, when Nixonomics was invented as an umbrella term for the economic policies of President Richard Milhous Nixon. But the word which settled its popularity—Reaganomics—arrived in the early eighties; it was followed in the early nineties by Clintonomics. In the eighties, Britain briefly had Thatchernomics, though it was never very popular; New Zealand’s former Minister of Finance, Roger Douglas, provoked Rogernomics (a rare case of a politician’s first name rather than family name being borrowed). Other British politicians have had it applied to them in a half-hearted and short-lived way (Majornomics, Haguenomics) and Americans may remember Dolenomics from 1996.These examples settled the ending firmly into the grab-bags of topical writers. A sign of its acceptance is that it now pops up from time to time attached to words other than politicians’ names. Back in 1996, a report by Kleinwort Benson described the policies of Malaysia as Noddynomics, which greatly displeased that country’s government. Burgernomics has been applied to the global economic policies and impact of certain fast-food firms. Cybernomics has been used for the economic implications of the digital economy. And so on.So we ought not to be surprised that Enronomics has popped up, though it is unusual in being attached to the name of a corporation. -
9 Carlyle, Thomas
перс.пол. Карлейль, Томас (1795-1881; английский публицист, историк и философ; выдвинул концепцию культа героев, которые являются единственнми творцами истории; автор выражения "мрачная наука" по отношению к политической экономии; автор определения laissez-fair как "анархия плюс констебль")See:
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