# Economics > [!quote] [The Dismal Science](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_dismal_science)? -- No, it's not! > > "Not a 'gay science', I should say, like some we have heard of; no, a dreary, desolate and, indeed, quite abject and distressing one; what we might call, by way of eminence, the _dismal science_." - [[macroeconomics|Macro]] - [[microeconomics|Micro]]