economist

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Reuters has reported that the new commission's members will probably include former Senators Fred Thompson, Jake Garn, and Bob Graham, along with former Commodity Futures Trading Commission chair Brooksley Born (the only progressive name floated so far) and Alex Pollock, a conservative economist from the American Enterprise Institute.

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  1. noun A specialist in economics.
  2. noun Archaic An economical person.

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  • China economy-economist * BRIC nations won't mull new reserve currencies-Kremlin * —  WN.com - Business News
  • Sherden also provided these insights: He said that the First Law of Economics was that for every economist, there is an equal and opposite economist-for every bullish economist, there is a bearish one. —  SeekingAlpha.com: Home Page
  • "In the face of the most serious contraction in decades, it is hard to imagine that Mexico will avoid recession too," said Gray Newman, Latin American economist for Morgan Stanley in New York. —  Reflector - Latest Headlines from The Daily Reflector
  • Professor James Galbraith is economist, a professor of public affairs and government at the University of Texas, Austin. —  Democracy Now!
  • A good economist will be the first to argue against an incentive structure that encourages bankers to take irrational risks, or to advocate a tax on carbon if the social costs of emissions are higher than the private costs.
 

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  1. Formerly also æconomist; = French économiste = Spanish Portuguese Italian economista; as economy + -ist.
 

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/əˈkɑnəmɪst/
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