economist是什么意思？

Sugar, alcohol and tobacco, economist Adam Smith once wrote, are commodities which are nowhere necessaries of life, which have become objects of almost universal consumption, and which are, therefore, extremely popular subjects of taxation.

Economist Carl Weinberg believes the negative effects of plunging oil prices are overwhelming the positive effects of cheaper oil.

It is the concern of contemporary economists.

As I began to read about scientists, economists, and philosophers, I started imagining myself in their shoes.

Mark Zandi, an economist at Moody's Economy.com, predicts that the recession will shrink America's economy by 3.5% in total.

It concerns not only us sociologists, but also economists, politicians and business people.

Economists' failure to detect the problems in time.

Economists project that most employers would shift money from expensive health benefits into wages.

It was in a free fall, and it was a veryscary period, economist Martin Neil Baily said.

The dialogue is changing from what is technologically possible to what is technologically meaningful, said economist Shawn Du Bravac.

So what factors, at the community level, do predict if poor children will move up the economic ladder as adults? What explains, for instance, why the Salt Lake City metro area is one of the 100 largest metropolitan areas most likely to lift the fortunes of the poor and the Atlanta metro area is one of the least likely?Harvard economist Raj Chetty has pointed to economic and racial segregation, community density, the size of a community's middle class, the quality of schools, community religiosity, and family structure, which he calls the single strongest correlate of upward mobility.

A number of prominent economists have also argued that it's harder for the poor to climb the economic ladder today because the rungs（横档） in that ladder have grown farther apart.

A new study by Cornell economists Francine Blau and Lawrence Kahn gives an explanation.

Swedish economists Magnus Henrekson and Mikael Stenkula addressed the following question in their 2009study:why are there so few female top executives in the European egalitarian(平等主义的)welfare states

in Western Europe, reports economist Robert Stein in the journal National Affairs.

But economists who study the relationship between money and happiness have consistently found that, above a certain income, the two do not reliably correlate.

As the Indian economist Amartya Sen has wisely said, "The invisible hand of the market has often relied heavily on the visible hand of government.

David Card, an economist at UC Berkeley, notes that the ones who profit most directly from immigrants' low-cost labor are businesses and employers – meatpacking plants in Nebraska, for instance, or agricultural businesses in California.

Yet the consensus among most economists is that immigration, both legal and illegal, provides a small net boost to the economy.

But when all those factors are put together and the economists calculate the numbers, it ends up being a net positive, but a small one

Whether immigrants are good or bad for the economy has been puzzling economists.

The consensus among economists is that immigration should not be encouraged

The general public thinks differently from most economists on the impact of immigration.

Even economists can't reach a consensus about its impact

Are many economists involved in this field?

In the 1990s, many economists began to look at chaos theory as a way of providing models for forecasting

It reflected the opinions of most economists.

Andy Holder—the chief economist at The Bank of England—suggested that the UK move towards a government-backed digital currency.

Harvard economist Raj Chetty has pointed to economic and racial segregation, community density, the size of a community's middle class, the quality of schools, community religiosity, and family structure, which he calls the "single strongest correlate of

In an interview last year with The Economist, George Whitesides, chief executive of space-tourism firm virgin Galactic, was placing his company in the latter category.

"The dialogue is changing from what is technologically possible to what is technologically meaningful, " said economist Shawn Du Bravac.