OXFORD 9000
📚 noun • entry_id 26519

economist

/iːˈkɒn.ə.mɪst/
Meanings (ES + gloss)
economista
An expert in economics, especially one who studies economic data and extracts higher-level information or proposes theories.
Economics is a messy discipline: too fluid to be a science, too rigorous to be an art. Perhaps it is fitting that economists’ most-used metric, gross domestic product (GDP), is a t…
The formula, which AEI economists said had “no foundation in either economic theory or trade law,” instead wrongly incorporated the elasticity for retail prices. […] However, certa…