economist

plural economists · alternative archaic œconomist

1. An expert in economics, especially one who studies economic data and extracts higher-level information or proposes theories.

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   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 tangle too. GDP measures the total value of output in an economic territory. Its apparent simplicity explains why it is scrutinised down to tenths of a percentage point every month.

   2013 August 3, “Boundary problems”, in The Economist, volume 408, number 8847

   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, certainty is anything but a sure thing these days, and the bread-and-butter of the US economy might not go unscathed, said RSM economist Brusuelas.

   2025 April 9, Alicia Wallace, “The next round of Trump’s tariffs could hurt even more. Here’s what to expect”, in CNN Business

2. One concerned with political economy.
3. obsoleteOne who manages a household.
4. obsoleteOne who economizes, or manages domestic or other concerns with frugality; one who expends money, time, or labor, judiciously, and without waste.

   Synonyms: economiser, economizer, miser