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An expert in economics, especially one who studies economic data and extracts higher-level information or proposes theories.

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One concerned with political economy.

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One who manages a household.

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One who economizes, or manages domestic or other concerns with frugality; one who expends money, time, or labor, judiciously, and without waste.

As to his position as an economist, opinion is also divided.

These ideas will seem very crude to an economist, no doubt.

There is probably not a single chapter in the Wealth of Nations which would be thoroughly endorsed by any living economist.

This school is considered to be the top online MBA program by The Wall Street Journal and The Economist.

Hume's eminence in the fields of philosophy and history must not be allowed to obscure his importance as a political economist.

The idea that they might employ an economist or someone to engage with the community is newer still.

He became grand officer of the Legion of Honour in 1861, and during the later years of his life received from many quarters public recognition of his eminence as a political economist.

During 1837-1846 he was employed as an engineer on the London & Birmingham railway; 1848-1853 as sub-editor of the Economist.

It is only as an illustration of his many-sidedness and his manifold activity that we now turn to his work as a statesman, as a theatre-director, as a practical political economist.

He was a prolific writer, and at the time of his death he occupied the foremost position in England both as a logician and as an economist.

For nineteen years he wrote an admirable survey of the commercial history of the year in the Economist.

Even their trivialities have their use; their endless anecdotes respecting the personal habits of the subjects of their biographies, if valueless to the historian, are most acceptable to the archaeologist, and not unimportant to the economist and moralist.

Two of the most eminent natives of the burgh were Dr Thomas Somerville (1741-1830), the historian, and James Wilson (1805-1860), founder of the Economist newspaper and the first financial member of the council for India.

He had always refused to accept the economist's dictum without reference to other considerations than the turnover of trade; and even Manchester could pardon the refusal now.

John C. Calhoun was her political philosopher and George McDuffie her political economist.

Whalebone's blood also descends through Waverley (1817) and his son the Saddler (1828), while Whisker is represented by the Colonel (1825) and by Economist (1825) and his son Harkaway (1834), sire of King Tom (1851).

In all this he treated French finance rather as a banker than as a profound political economist, and thus fell far short of Turgot, who was the very greatest economist of his day.

The former apparatchik was Joseph Stiglitz, ex-chief economist of the World Bank.

Having emphasized the British conservative tradition, I should perhaps redress the balance by quoting the great French economist Frederic Bastiat.

Ireland has been named as the place with the highest quality of life in the world, says the economist.

The day and must-reads economist and we were transported.

To get a taxi Gillespie economist and a piano lounge in calm waters.

More Information Alana Gilbert is a labor economist working on rural development issues.

An economist friend long ago proposed the erection of a statue in Belfast to ' The Unknown British Taxpayer ' .

The little kingdom is an Erewhon - a combination of a millionaire's garden playground, an economist's paradise, and Nirvana.

The Economist and other publications should be free to criticize Italian politicians.

Had passenger cabins must-reads economist and quot murderers ' row above our beds.

Before joining the treasury, he worked as a professional economist.

In 1867 she married the economist Henry Fawcett, subsequently PostmasterGeneral (see 10.215), and during her husband's life was closely associated with him in all his work, his blindness making him in many ways extremely dependent upon her.

On the other hand, the banker, the government official and the economist use railway statistics to obtain information which may be characterized as static rather than dynamic. Both uses ultimately rest upon comparison of the observed data from a certain property with the observed data from other properties, or with predetermined standards of performance.

The economist must, therefore, artisan he enjoys no municipal or political privileges.

Malthus is already an author whose name is probably more widely known than that of any other economist, but whose works are rarely read, and studied only by a small proportion of The old text-book and learnt like the multiplication table, it political p economy."

No economist would deliberately make that assumption now unless he were dealing with some purely theoretical problem, for the solution of which it was legitimate at some stage in the reasoning.

The last duke of Charost, Armand Joseph de Bethune (1738-1800), French economist and philanthropist, served in the army during the Seven Years' War, after which he retired to his estates in Berry, where, and also in Brittany and Picardy, he sought to ameliorate the lot of his peasants by abolishing feudal dues, and introducing reforms in agriculture.

Before joining the Treasury, he worked as a professional economist.

These essays were worked out and written many years before, and show Mill in his first stage as a political economist.

Be this as it may, we now see that the only basis on which these doctrines could be allowed to stand as a permanent part of economic science is that on which they are placed by Roscher, namely, as a stage in the preparatory work of the economist, who, beginning with such abstractions, afterwards turns from them, not in practice merely, but in the completed theory, to real life and men as they actually are or have been.

Pufendorf was at once philosopher, lawyer, economist, historian and statesman.

The Economist ranked Thunderbird's online MBA program as one of the top five in the nation in 2010.

In 2006, Cleveland was one of Money Magazine's Best Places to Live, and in 2005, Cleveland and Pittsburgh were ranked by The Economist as the Most Livable in the United States.

Lizzie developed the game to demonstrate the rental and tenant concepts of economist Henry George.

The show's heroine, Beatriz Aurora Pinzón Solano, known as Betty, is an unattractive and dowdy woman with a master's degree in finance and talented economist who could not find a job in her field because of her physical appearance.

According to Gene Huang, FedEx chief economist and a Shanghai native, the Chinese emerging middle class and growing consumerism will continue to seek goods and luxury items from the rest of the world.

A Duke University/Harvard University joint study found the effect of file sharing to be zero on music sales, and a study by The Economist reported that three-quarters of the decline in sales could not be blamed on illegal downloads.

The New York Times, UK Guardian, and UK Economist were the first adopters of the Internet.

That originality and independence became more conspicuous when he reached his second stage as a political economist, struggling forward towards the standpoint from which his systematic work was written.

It follows from Quesnay's theoretic views that the one thing deserving the solicitude of the practical economist and the statesman is the increase of the net product; and he infers also what Smith afterwards affirmed, on not quite the same ground, that the interest of the landowner is "strictly and indissolubly connected with the general interest of the society."

Besides Kuhschwanz, a peculiar kind of beer, it manufactures tobacco, cigars, shoes and hosiery; and coal-mining is carried on in the neighbourhood, It was the birthplace of the naturalist Christian Gottfried Ehrenberg (1795-1876), and the political economist Hermann Schulze-Delitzsch (1808-1883), to the latter of whom a statue has been erected.

Whether a modern economist accepts his views or not is of no importance.

As a statesman, Rossi was a man of signal ability and intrepid character, but it is as an economist that his name will be best remembered.