Current well-known economists include 2008 Nobel Memorial Prize in Economic Sciences winner Paul Krugman, a public intellectual and advocate of modern liberal policies ; Alan Greenspan, the former chairman of the Federal Reserve ; Ben Bernanke, the current Chairman of the Federal Reserve ; Joseph Stiglitz, an American economist, Nobel Memorial Prize in Economics winner, critic of inequality and the governance of globalization, and Chief Economist of the World Bank.

* List of Washington University faculty and staff: economist and Nobel Memorial Prize winner Douglass North ; husband and wife biochemists and co-Nobel Prize winners Carl and Gerty Cori ; physicist and Nobel Prize winner Arthur Holly Compton ; novelists Stanley Elkin and William Gass ; poets Carl Phillips and Mary Jo Bang ; architect Fumihiko Maki ; neurologist and Nobel Prize winner Rita Levi-Montalcini ; sex researchers William Masters and Virginia Johnson ; Poets Laureate Howard Nemerov and Mona Van Duyn ; sociologist and " outlaw Marxist " Alvin Ward Gouldner ; attorney, former Counsel to Vice-President Al Gore and former Tennessee Attorney General Charles Burson ; writer and culture critic Gerald Early ; Economist, and former Chair of President Ronald Reagan's Council of Economic Advisors, Murray Weidenbaum ; chemist Joseph W. Kennedy, co-discoverer of the element plutonium ; computer scientist Jonathan S. Turner, internationally renowned expert in computer networking ; computer scientist Raj Jain, pioneer in the field of network congestion ; and Law Professor Troy A. Paredes, currently on leave as a commissioner of the SEC.

Joseph Stiglitz, the World Bank Chief Economist and the winner of the 2001 Nobel Prize for Economics

Economist Joseph Schumpeter was born there in 1883.

Joseph Stiglitz, 2001 Nobel laureate for economics and former World Bank Chief Economist, told to reporter Lucy Komisar, investigating on the Clearstream scandal:

Economist Joseph Stiglitz testified that bank bailouts "... are really bailouts not of the enterprises but of the shareholders and especially bondholders.

* Reviews by The Economist, Barry Eichengreen ( Foreign Affairs ), Benjamin M. Friedman ( The New York Review of Books ), Robin Blackburn ( The Independent ), Geoffrey Owen ( The Daily Telegraph ), Joseph Kahn ( The New York Times ), Michael J. Mandel ( BusinessWeek ), Anna Lappe ( San Francisco Chronicle ), Brink Lindsey ( The Wall Street Journal ) and Claus Tigges ( Frankfurter Allgemeine Zeitung, German ) on the website of Arlindo Correia

The claims of inefficiency have, however, been criticized by Economist Joseph E. Medley of the University of Southern Maine, US.

Economist Joseph Stiglitz argued for a rapid bankruptcy process for homeowners, to allow debts to be written down.

Economist Joseph Salerno noted that " Mark Thornton of the Mises Institute was one of the first to jump on this — to start writing about the housing bubble.

After Keynes's death Schumpeter wrote a brief biographical piece called Keynes the Economist – on a personal level he was very positive about Keynes as a man ; praising his pleasant nature, courtesy and kindness.

The Economist magazine referred to Brin as an " Enlightenment Man ", and someone who believes that " knowledge is always good, and certainly always better than ignorance ", a philosophy that is summed up by Google ’ s motto " Organize the world ’ s information and make it universally accessible and useful " and " Don't be evil ".

A recent example is the Troubled Asset Relief Program ( TARP ), signed into law by U. S. President George W. Bush on October 3, 2008 to provide a Government bailout for many financial and non-financial institutions who speculated in high-risk financial instruments during the housing boom condemned by a 2005 story in The Economist titled " The worldwide rise in house prices is the biggest bubble in history ".

In April 1994 the Economist, in an article entitled " Perrypatetic ," observed: " The man who has started to sound like a secretary of state is in fact the defense secretary, William Perry.

" Andrew Samwick, who was Chief Economist on Bush's Council of Economic Advisers from 2003-2004 responded to the claim:

* John Grimond, a foreign editor of The Economist who in 1973 married Kate Fleming ( b. 1946 ), elder daughter of the writer Peter Fleming and actress Celia Johnson, and has three children with her.

One high profile defector was Justin Yifu Lin, who swam across the Kinmen strait to mainland China and is now Chief Economist and Senior Vice President of the World Bank.

The Economist magazine who reported this finding stated that " utilitarians, ... may add to the sum of human happiness, but they are not very happy people themselves.

Among the famous personalities who hailed from Feni district are Famous saint Shah Syed Amir Uddin Pagla Miah / Baba ( RA ) who is regarded as founder of feni and sultanul awlia feni, Saint Mamu Fakir ( RA ), Begum Khaleda Zia ( former Prime Minister ), Sir A. F. Rahman ( the first Muslim Vice Chancellor of University, Dr. Mustafa Chowdhury ( former Public Service Commission Chairman ), Prof. Ahmed Shafee ( Vice-Chancellor of East West University ), Former Politician and Businessman Mowlana Abdul Wadud, Abdul Awal Mintu, Saber Hossen Chowdhury, Mosarraf Hossen, Economist Abu Ahammed, journalists

Economist Paul Krugman agrees mostly with the Rawlsian approach in that he would like to " create the society each of us would want if we didn ’ t know in advance who we ’ d be.

* John Law ( pronounced Jean Lass ) ( 21 April 1671 – 21 March 1729 ) was a Scottish Economist who believed that money was only a means of exchange that did not constitute wealth in itself and that national wealth depended on trade.

One high profile defector was Justin Yifu Lin, who swam across the Kinmen strait to mainland China and is now Chief Economist and Senior Vice President of the World Bank.

He was editor of The Economist from 1922 to 1938. the title is held by his grandson, the third Baron, who succeeded his father in 1989.

An article published in The Economist calls Najib a ' well-intentioned man ' fighting for ' right and proper ' reforms who faces obstructionism not from the opposition, but from his own party.

The News serves as a training ground for journalists at Yale, and has produced a steady stream of professional reporters, who work at newspapers and magazines including The Washington Post, The Wall Street Journal, The New York Times, The Los Angeles Times, Time, Newsweek, The New Yorker and The Economist.

Economist Thomas Sowell has written that the actual path of money in a private enterprise economy is quite the opposite of that claimed by people who refer to the trickle-down theory.

Andrew Alan Samwick is an American economist, who served as Chief Economist on the staff of the United States President's Council of Economic Advisors from July 2003 to July 2004.

* The Economist: Iraqi legislative election who's who ( pay site )

" The Economist later pointed out with amusement that it received a letter from a reader in Boston who thought the word " niggardly " was inappropriate.

His son was the Sri Lankan Economist, Dr. Gamani Corea who was appointed Secretary-General of the United Nations Conference on Trade and Development ( UNCTAD ) and Assistant Secretary-General of the United Nations.

Economist Paul Craig Roberts, who is known as the " Father of Reaganomics ", has noted, that " Chile was the first country in the world to privatize Social Security.

The inspiration for the episode came from the concept of " thrillionaires ", a term the Simpsons writers found in an issue of The Economist to describe millionaires who " do really incredible stunts " and " go on amazing adventures.

Burnet was also a prominent print journalist who edited The Economist and Daily Express.

A fan favorite since the show's inception, Chris Carabott of IGN stated that in the episode " The Economist "-" Sayid Jarrah is a badass who could give Jack Bauer, James Bond, and Jason Bourne all a run for their money ".

Economist Thomas Sowell argues that the Great Society programs only contributed to the destruction of African American families, saying " the black family, which had survived centuries of slavery and discrimination, began rapidly disintegrating in the liberal welfare state that subsidized unwed pregnancy and changed welfare from an emergency rescue to a way of life.

He also penned a regular column in the Wall Street Journal for 10 years and contributed frequently to the Harvard Business Review, The Atlantic Monthly, and The Economist.

Marr left shortly afterwards, and joined The Economist, where he contributed the weekly " Bagehot " political column and ultimately became the magazine's political editor in 1988.

An author of children's books, novels, and several biographies, Miranda Seymour has also contributed to a number of leading newspapers and literary journals, including The New York Times, The Los Angeles Times, The London Review of Books, The Guardian, The Sunday Times, The Times Literary Supplement, and The Economist.

He wrote political columns for the Oxford University magazine and contributed articles to The Economist magazine of London.

As a war correspondent / feature writer he has contributed to The Times, The Sunday Times, The Observer, The Economist and The New York Times.

In a 2005 study of 127 world cities, the Economist Intelligence Unit ranked the city first ( in a tie with Vancouver, Canada ) for the world's most livable cities ( in the 2012 survey of 140 cities Vienna was ranked number two, behind Melbourne ).

The October 2003 provincial election resulted in the newly elected PC government announcing joint federal-provincial funding for a study of the concept, which was promptly derided by The Economist.

*" The proper study of mankind "— Article in The Economist

" study The Economist also stated that " evidence from social scientists suggests that American society is much ` stickier ` than most Americans assume.

According to a study by the Economist Intelligence Unit, 167 countries were classified according to five broad concepts: free and fair election process, civil liberties, functioning of government, political participation and political culture.

This study received press coverage in The Wall Street Journal and The Economist.

In its report on the study, The Economist argued that the causes of this health inequality include lifestyles-smoking remains more common, and obesity is increasing fastest, amongst the poor in Britain.

A 2008 study by World Bank Lead Economist Kym Anderson found that global income could increase by more than $ 3000 billion per year, $ 2500 billion of which would go to the developing world.

IESE had previously ranked as number one business school in the world based on the study of the Economist Intelligence Unit of 2005 and 2006.