What is "economist"

Usage examples of "economist".

Whilst the mechanist abridges, and the political economist combines labour, let them beware that their speculations, for want of correspondence with those first principles which belong to the imagination, do not tend, as they have in modern England, to exasperate at once the extremes of luxury and want.

The Report has no scientific basis whatever and has been riddled with criticism by expert students of every kind, including not merely students of alcoholism but also Professor Alfred Marshall of Cambridge, the greatest English-speaking economist of the time, who has shown that there are no grounds for the assumptions made by Professor Pearson in that part of his argument which is based upon the economic efficiency of drinking and non-drinking parents.

A fine Greek scholar as well as eminent economist, he, along with General Beck and Hassell, was a member of the Wednesday Club, a group of sixteen intellectuals who gathered once a week to discuss philosophy, history, art, science and literature and who as time went on - or ran out - formed one of the centers of the opposition.

Well, the Levers will have a vacancy for an economist on their personal staff.

The economist and the mineralogist were being held on the deck while the cargo was being brought aboard.

He had been certain from the first that the economist and mineralogist had been brought to Subterranae.

Caulkins, the economist, and the pudgy, fattish form of Cassalano, the mineralogist, passed toward the hollowed trenches where the trinitromite was being placed.

Homer Pearson Caulkins, the economist, and Salvatore Umbrogia Cassalano, the mineralogist, appeared.

A harsh business system is forcing the vast majority of workers, salaried and unsalaried, full-time and part-time, to extend their hours, or so these economists argue.

Indian economist Surjit Bhalla, formerly of the World Bank, believes that even these figures overstate the current extent of global poverty: By his calculations, the poverty rate has already fallen to 13 percent.

The economists of the eighteenth century - whether Physiocrats or not - thought that land, or labour applied to the land, made it possible to overcome this scarcity, at least in part: this was because the land had the marvellous property of being able to account for far more needs than those of the men cultivating it.

Our best economists reprehend the policy of depleting our labor-market.

When the economist Juliet Schor was trying to bolster her case that modern industrialized peoples work longer hours than ever before, she argued that people did not work much in medieval or ancient times.

Congressional Budget Office and a bevy of Democratic economists had to use unadjusted census data to construct a measure of average family income biased by rising divorce rates and the growth of single-parent households.

The above, in substance, was the doctrine of Alexander Hamilton, the ablest practical financier and economist that ever lived, certainly without a rival in this country.