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economist
/iˈkɑ.nə.mɪst/
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What does economist mean?
noun
- An expert in economics, especially one who studies economic data and extracts higher-level information or proposes theories.
- One concerned with political economy.
More meanings (2)
noun
- (obsolete) One who manages a household.
- (obsolete) One who economizes, or manages domestic or other concerns with frugality; one who expends money, time, or labor, judiciously, and without waste.
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IPA pronunciation
/iˈkɑ.nə.mɪst/
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But no amount of lubberly book-jargon can disguise a fact well calculated to afflict the soul of every sound economist.
There is not an economist, either before or since Adam Smith, who has even perceived that here is a problem to be solved.
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To live on nothing a day is difficult enough, but to save on it would beat the cleverest political economist that ever lived.
Bernard, however, was neither an economist nor a cattle-fancier, and he found that, as the phrase is, there was not a great deal to take hold of.
If he was an economist, he generally found it more profitable to employ his annual savings in new purchases than in the improvement of his old estate.