economic expert

Other forms: economic experts

Definitions of economic expert

1. noun

   an expert in the science of economics
   synonyms: economist

   examples:

   William Henry Beveridge

   British economist (born in India) whose report on social insurance provided the basis for most of the social legislation on which the welfare state in the United Kingdom is based (1879-1963)

   Milton Friedman

   United States economist noted as a proponent of monetarism and for his opposition to government intervention in the economy (born in 1912)

   Ragnar Anton Kittil Frisch

   Norwegian economist noted for his work in econometrics (1895-1973)

   John Kenneth Galbraith

   United States economist (born in Canada) who served as ambassador to India (born in 1908)

   Friedrich August von Hayek

   English economist (born in Austria) noted for work on the optimum allocation of resources (1899-1992)

   William Stanley Jevons

   English economist and logician who contributed to the development of the theory of marginal utility (1835-1882)

   John Maynard Keynes

   English economist who advocated the use of government monetary and fiscal policy to maintain full employment without inflation (1883-1946)

   Tjalling Charles Koopmans

   United States economist (born in the Netherlands) (1910-1985)

   Simon Kuznets

   United States economist (born in Russia) who developed a method for using a country's gross national product to estimate its economic growth (1901-1985)

   Arthur Laffer

   United States economist who proposed the Laffer curve (born in 1940)

   Stephen Butler Leacock

   Canadian economist best remembered for his humorous writings (1869-1944)

   Wassily Leontief

   United States economist (born in Russia) who devised an input-output method of economic analysis (1906-1999)

   Thomas Robert Malthus

   an English economist who argued that increases in population would outgrow increases in the means of subsistence (1766-1834)

   Karl Marx

   founder of modern communism; wrote the Communist Manifesto with Engels in 1848; wrote Das Kapital in 1867 (1818-1883)

   James Edward Meade

   English economist noted for his studies of international trade and finance (1907-1995)

   John Stuart Mill

   English philosopher and economist remembered for his interpretations of empiricism and utilitarianism (1806-1873)

   Jean Monnet

   French economist who advocated a Common Market in Europe (1888-1979)

   Karl Gunnar Myrdal

   Swedish economist (1898-1987)

   Vilfredo Pareto

   Italian sociologist and economist whose theories influenced the development of fascism in Italy (1848-1923)

   David Ricardo

   English economist who argued that the laws of supply and demand should operate in a free market (1772-1823)

   Joseph Alois Schumpeter

   United States economist (born in Czechoslovakia) (1883-1950)

   Herbert Alexander Simon

   United States economist and psychologist who pioneered in the development of cognitive science (1916-2001)

   Adam Smith

   Scottish economist who advocated private enterprise and free trade (1723-1790)

   Richard Henry Tawney

   English economist remembered for his studies of the development of capitalism (1880-1962)

   Jan Tinbergen

   Dutch economist noted for his work in econometrics (1903-1994)

   James Tobin

   United States economist (1918-2002)

   Anne Robert Jacques Turgot

   French economist who in 1774 was put in control of finances by Louis XVI; his proposals for reforms that involved abolishing feudal privileges made him unpopular with the aristocracy and in 1776 he was dismissed (1727-1781)

   Thorstein Bunde Veblen

   United States economist who wrote about conspicuous consumption (1857-1929)

   Baroness Jackson of Lodsworth

   English economist and conservationist (1914-1981)

   First Baron Passfield

   English sociologist and economist and a central member of the Fabian Society (1859-1947)

   Helen Laura Sumner Woodbury

   United States social economist (1876-1933)

   types:

   econometrician, econometrist

   an economist who uses statistical and mathematical methods

   macroeconomic expert, macroeconomist

   an economist who specializes in macroeconomics

   microeconomic expert, microeconomist

   an economist who specializes in microeconomics

   monetarist

   an advocate of the theory that economic fluctuations are caused by increases or decreases in the supply of money

   bimetallist

   an advocate of bimetallism

   type of:

   social scientist

   someone expert in the study of human society and its personal relationships