"Mountford has written a distinctively entertaining novel that illuminates the spiritual odyssey of a contemporary Dodsworth." ——出版人週刊，星級書評
"A savvy, fast-paced novel. . . a bracingly intelligent novel."——科克斯評論
"Quietly wrenching, sharply drawn and completely un-put-downable. With The Dismal Science, Peter Mountford asserts himself as our generation’s most significant business-world ombudsman. A deft and unflinching exponent of the human side of a polarizing world few of us actually understand."——Tea Obreht，紐約時報暢銷書《老虎的妻子》（The Tiger’s Wife）作者
“In his fiercely intelligent second novel (after A Young Man’s Guide to Late Capitalism), Mountford examines, with wry humor and sympathy leavened with a realistic accounting of Vincenzo d’Orsi’s flaws and failings, the repercussions of a decision made in haste and—perhaps—regretted at leisure. Or not regretted. Who could have ever predicted that an economist at the World Bank could be such a terrific main character? I absolutely loved The Dismal Science." ——Nancy Pearl，NPR著名書評
"Peter Mountford's elegantly written The Dismal Science—an advance on his superb first novel—is an extremely impressive imagining by a relatively young writer into a relatively old man's life. It also is a brilliant extrapolation of the economist's 'dismal science' into a metaphor for the difficult fate of any living, breathing, dying human being."——David Shields，紐約時報暢銷書《人都會死，所以我們知道如何活著》（The Thing About Life Is That One Day You'll Be Dead ）作者
“The Dismal Science is a beautiful novel: stark, powerful, and life-affirming. Vincenzo’s haunting journey will stay with me for a very, very long time.”——Garth Stein，紐約時報暢銷書《我在雨中等你》（The Art of Racing in the Rain）作者
“The Dismal Science is exuberant art, a deep, moving comedy about grief, guilt, and the heart's geopolitics. Mountford writes with soul and style and makes the plight of his protagonist count.”
——Sam Lipsyte, New York Times bestselling author of The Ask
