Economist
An Economist is a social sciences researcher who performs economic research.
- Context:
- They can range from being a Macro Economist to being a Micro Economist.
- They can range from being an Institutions Economist to being a Behavioral Economist (of behavioral economics).
- They can range from being a Liberal Economist to being a Free Market Economist.
- They can range from being a Political Economist to being a Financial Economist.
- They can range from being a Theoretical Economist to being an Empirical Economist.
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- Example(s):
- Adam Smith (1723-1790).
- David Ricardo (1772-1823).
- John Stuart Mill (1806-1873).
- Karl Marx (1818-1883).
- Thorstein Veblen (1857-1929).
- John Maynard Keynes (1883–1946).
- Joseph A. Schumpeter (1883-1950).
- Herbert A. Simon (1916-2001).
- Paul A. Samuelson (1915-2009).
- Milton Friedman (1912-2006).
- Robert M. Solow (1924-present).
- Thomas J. Sargent (1943-present).
- Paul R. Krugman (1953-).
- Andrei Shleifer (1961-present).
- Daron Acemoglu (1967-present).
- Thomas Piketty (1971-present).
- Gabriel Zucman (1986-present).
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- Counter-Example(s):
- an Anthropologist.
- a Psychologist.
- a Scientist.
- See: Economics, Economic Policy, Economic Market, Econometrics, Economic Model.
References
2014
- (Wikipedia, 2014) ⇒ http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/economist Retrieved:2014-8-17.
- An economist is a professional in the social science discipline of economics. The individual may also study, develop, and apply theories and concepts from economics and write about economic policy. Within this field there are many sub-fields, ranging from the broad philosophical theories to the focused study of minutiae within specific markets, macroeconomic analysis, microeconomic analysis or financial statement analysis, involving analytical methods and tools such as econometrics, statistics, economics computational models, financial economics, mathematical finance and mathematical economics. A generally accepted interpretation in academia is that an economist is one who has attained a Ph.D. in economics, teaches economic science, and has published literature in a field of economics.