# The Dismal Science

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- Book: [The Dismal Science](https://www.bookquiver.com/peter-mountford/the-dismal-science) ([The Dismal Science.md](https://www.bookquiver.com/peter-mountford/the-dismal-science.md))
- Authors: [Peter Mountford](https://www.bookquiver.com/peter-mountford)
- Publisher: tin_house
- ISBN: 978-19-3563-972-5
- Pages: 230
- Published: 2014-01-28
- Language: en_US
- Binding: Softcover

## Description

Mountford's follow up to A Young Man's Guide to Late Capitalism is at once a cogent political drama and an acute meditation on the fragile nature of identity. The Dismal Science tells of a middle-aged...