economist

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

The delicate and intricate pattern of competition and cooperation in the economic behavior of the hundreds of thousands of citizens of Stockholm offers a challenge to the economist that is perhaps as complex as the challenges of the physicist and the chemist. George Stigler

I think you've got to watch out for anybody in high school who says he wants to become an economist. Thomas J. Sargent

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

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

Everything which the economist takes from you in the way of life and humanity, he restores to you in the form of money and wealth. Lionel Trilling

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