political economist

American  

[puh-lit-i-kuhl-i-kahn-uhm-ist] / pəˈlɪt ɪ kəl ɪˈkɑn əm ɪst /

noun

1. a specialist or student of political economy.

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Example Sentences

Ehrlich was often labeled a neo-Malthusian, a reference to the 18th-century British political economist Thomas Malthus, best known for “An Essay on the Principle of Population.”

From The Wall Street Journal

Lizzie Magie was an impassioned follower of Henry George, a popular political economist and author of the bestselling book, “Progress and Poverty.”

From The Wall Street Journal

Alec Phillips, Goldman Sachs’s chief U.S. political economist, estimated in a Nov. 2 research note that if the shutdown lasts around six weeks, it could reduce quarter-on-quarter annualized real growth in gross domestic product over the final three months of 2025 by 1.15 percentage points, “primarily as a result of federal employee furloughs.”

From MarketWatch

Mr. Bird also discusses land redistribution, from the incremental version favored by Henry George, the 19th-century American political economist, to the violent reforms implemented by Mao Zedong in China.

From The Wall Street Journal

“The ultimate beneficiaries are the large tech companies and their investors,” said Govand Azeez, a political economist at Sydney’s Macquarie University who researches tech sovereignty in Southeast Asia.

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