Definition of Economist

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Economist

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

One who is conversant with political economy; a student of economics.

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Economist Quotations

An economist's guess is liable to be as good as anybody else's.
Will Rogers

A designer is an emerging synthesis of artist, inventor, mechanic, objective economist and evolutionary strategist.
R. Buckminster Fuller

Teach a parrot the terms "supply and demand" and you've got an economist.
Thomas Carlyle

I was teaching in one of the universities while the country was suffering from a severe famine. People were dying of hunger, and I felt very helpless. As an economist, I had no tool in my tool box to fix that kind of situation.
Muhammad Yunus

No real English gentleman, in his secret soul, was ever sorry for the death of a political economist.
Walter Bagehot

An economist is an expert who will know tomorrow why the things he predicted yesterday didn't happen today.
Laurence J. Peter

Amherst was pivotal in my broad intellectual development; MIT in my development as a professional economist.
Joseph E. Stiglitz

I don't imagine Heads of Government would ever be able to say I'm not an economist therefore I can't take decisions on matters of the economy; I'm not a soldier I can't take decisions on matters of defence; I'm not an educationist so I can't take decisions about education.
Thabo Mbeki

What the war did was give me the opportunity of three years of continuous reading, and it was in the course of reading that I became convinced that I should become an economist.
Douglass North

As many will remember, a respected Army Corps economist filed a whistleblower complaint about the Corps' use of faulty data to justify lock and dam expansion.
Ron Kind

Economist Translations

economist in Spanish is economista
economist in Swedish is nationalekonom

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