Eighteenth and nineteenth century Romantics called Economics "the Dismal Science."
Option A
Explanation:
"Dismal science" is a racist slur for economics, invented in 19th century by the Victorian scholar Thomas Carlyle. The term compared with the sentence "gay science," which was then a familiar use for song and poem writing.
In his 1849 pathway on the occasion of his debate on the Negro Question in Thomas Carlyle, the sentence "dismal science" first appeared in support of bringing back slavery in order to regain productivity in the West Indian countries:
Not a "gay science" I must say, just like some of us we have heard about, a gloomy science that's desolated and, indeed, quite utter and disturbing.