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academic
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The Labour Ministers were educated in the language and concepts of Keynesian economics by the academic economists in the government.
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Keynesian ideas were predominant in the Treasury as well as among academic economists .
chief
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Gerard Lyons, the chief economist with Standard Chartered Bank, divides them into five groups.
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Stephen Roach, chief economist at Morgan Stanley&038;.
classical
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Marx also took from the classical economists the idea that rates of profit are bound to fall in the long term.
great
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But Robert, on that evening, was dipping back to a famous essay by the great Cambridge economist .
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He is the greatest economist in the world.
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Perhaps so, but the great economist also saw it as confirming evidence of improving real wages.
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Most of the great economists were not particularly gifted investors.
international
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Among international economists , it is widely accepted that free trade areas do not require monetary union in order to function effectively.
political
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A former secretary of labor in the Clinton administration, Reich is a Faustian political economist .
private
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Forecasts by private economists range from one percent to two percent growth.
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But some private economists put the loss as high as $ 200 billion or more, which would require huge spending cuts.
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government
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It brings them together with research sponsors and customers as well as with business and government economists .
health
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That was the warning to the conference from Peter West, health economist with Touche Ross management consultants.
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The cost of each study was calculated with the advice of a health economist and a hospital finance officer.
home
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Some home economists are excellent at cake decorations, for example, while others are better at all-round cookery or pastry work.
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Cherry went to work as a home economist .
university
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And Chapman University economists say median family income has risen well above $ 60, 000 a year.
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Northwestern University economist Bruce Meyer discovered that the likelihood of getting a job actually triples during the last month of unemployment benefits.
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accord
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The trade report was a mixed bag, according to economists .
argue
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Later economists argued that such an economy would also be efficient in a precise sense.
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Meanwhile, economists argue about whether the true cost of healthcare has even gone down under managed care.
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Development economists have long argued that drought need not lead to famine; well-stocked inventories and effective distribution can limit the damage.
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Conclaves of economists argued this way and that.
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Many economists argue raising the minimum wage simply means higher unemployment among the very people such a measure is trying to help.
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Elliott Platt, economist with Donaldson, Lufkin & Jenrette, thinks such a recession will take hold in the fourth quarter.
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If economists did nothing but study events, they would be merely irrelevant.
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It is not for economists, however, to be put off by a paucity of data.
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The Labour Ministers were educated in the language and concepts of Keynesian economics by the academic economists in the government.
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The theories which sociologists and economists use to explain business life are almost entirely at odds with one another.
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Their version of an improved world may be very different from that of the economist oriented towards the expansion of industrial production.