Not even the most dismal orthodox economist would claim that material wealth is a substitute for kinship.
Bart Kuipers, a harbour economist at Erasmus University in Rotterdam, thinks that is a little ambitious, but he reckons the crate could win 2-3% of the market.
The survey comes on the heels of a heated debate over comments made by renowned economist Mao Yushi, who said he was "speaking for the rich and working for the poor".
An economist and lawyer by qualification, he also worked as an economist for the United Nations.
But as one Irish economist notes, the Celtic Tiger had already vanished.
A senior economist for the U.N. says both regions have weathered the crisis better than developed nations.
(Agence France-Presse, Rio de Janeiro) - During an interview in Brazil, Nobel laureate U.S. economist Joseph Stiglitz said that U.S. President Bush poses a much greater threat to global economy than any presidential candidate in Brazil.
It is, claims the economist, an example of anti-India bias.
Sweets have costs and benefits, and your daughter appears to be a better economist than you are.
They may eventually bear fruit but as Michael Massourakis, chief economist at Alpha Bank, points out, there are no swift gains to be made because the problem is so deeply entrenched.
The bond market is a rather better forecaster of recessions than the average economist.
If the economy is governed by historical happenstance, not timeless laws, and subject to imponderable contingencies, not calculable risks, then the economist may have precious little to say.
Tim Condon is chief economist and head of research for Asia in the Singapore offices of investment bank ing.
Daniel Altman, an American academic economist who once worked for the economist, blithely ignores this advice in his new book.
“I WAS reborn, born as an economist, at 8.00am on January 2nd 1932, in the University of Chicago classroom,” wrote Paul Samuelson in a memoir published earlier this month.
He is no more a banker than a businessman; he is an economist.
American conservatives have seized on this reversal of fortune: Arthur Laffer, a Reaganite economist, hails the Texan model over the Gipper's now hopelessly leftish home.
Its authors are self-proclaimed “rogue economist” Steven Levitt, of the University of Chicago, and his swashbuckling sidekick Stephen Dubner, a journalist.
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