{"id":162,"date":"2021-12-05T19:27:12","date_gmt":"2021-12-05T19:27:12","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/dismalscience.eu\/?page_id=162"},"modified":"2021-12-06T18:45:38","modified_gmt":"2021-12-06T18:45:38","slug":"about","status":"publish","type":"page","link":"https:\/\/dismalscience.eu\/?page_id=162","title":{"rendered":"About"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">This website (or more precisely this blog, since I still live in 2008) was created in order to share random analyses and thoughts about my topics of interest. The coverage of the articles may thus lack consistency, but I will try my best to make it worth a read in all cases. <\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">The title of this blog is a reference to the history of economics, which was nicknamed &#8220;the dismal science&#8221; in the 19<sup>th<\/sup> century by proponents of slavery<sup id=\"mfn-content-00000000000008d30000000000000000_162-1\" class=\"modern-footnotes-footnote modern-footnotes-footnote--hover-on-desktop \" data-mfn=\"1\" data-mfn-post-scope=\"00000000000008d30000000000000000_162\"><a href=\"javascript:void(0)\"  role=\"button\" aria-pressed=\"false\" aria-describedby=\"mfn-content-00000000000008d30000000000000000_162-1\">1<\/a><\/sup><span role=\"tooltip\" class=\"modern-footnotes-footnote__note\" tabindex=\"0\" data-mfn=\"1\">Carlyle, Thomas (1849). &#8220;Occasional Discourse on the Negro Question&#8221;, Fraser&#8217;s Magazine for Town and Country, Vol. XL<\/span> because of the insistence of the discipline to condemn this institution (I guess it makes all of us hardline supporters of gloom, welcome onboard!).<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">I try to review the information carefully before publishing it, but errors and differences of interpretation may subsist. All (constructive) comments and suggestions are welcomed. <\/p>\n<h3 class=\"modern-footnotes-list-heading modern-footnotes-list-heading--show-only-for-print\">Notes<\/h3><ul class=\"modern-footnotes-list modern-footnotes-list--show-only-for-print\"><li id=\"footnote-00000000000008d30000000000000000_162-1\"><span>1<\/span><div>Carlyle, Thomas (1849). &#8220;Occasional Discourse on the Negro Question&#8221;, Fraser&#8217;s Magazine for Town and Country, Vol. XL <a href=\"#mfn-content-00000000000008d30000000000000000_162-1\" class=\"modern-footnotes-scroll-to-footnote\" aria-label=\"Back to reference 1 in text\">\u21a9\ufe0e<\/a><\/div><\/li><\/ul>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>This website (or more precisely this blog, since I still live in 2008) was created in order to share random analyses and thoughts about my topics of interest. The coverage of the articles may thus lack consistency, but I will try my best to make it worth a read in all cases. 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