Economist Milton Friedman sees property rights as " the most basic of human rights and an essential foundation for other human rights.

Economist Milton Friedman states that for the 1880s, " The highest decadal rate growth of real reproducible, tangible wealth per head from 1805 to 1950 for periods of about ten years was apparently reached in the eighties with approximately 3. 8 percent.

A survey of economists ranked Friedman as the second most popular economist of the twentieth century behind John Maynard Keynes, and The Economist described him as " the most influential economist of the second half of the 20th century … possibly of all of it.

* 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

John Young writes the Economist, favoring a bridge across the St. Lawrence.

Economist Richard C. Koo wrote that under ideal conditions, a country's economy should have the household sector as net savers and the corporate sector as net borrowers, with the government budget nearly balanced and net exports near zero.

The charitable foundation was reported by the business newspaper The Economist in May 2006 to be technically the world's wealthiest charity – with an estimated value of at least US $ 36 billion in 2006 ( larger than the Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation ) – but its primary purpose is corporate tax-optimization and anti-takeover protection for IKEA.

Economist Sir John Crawford and judge Sir Edward Williams thoroughly deserved their awards, but were perhaps not well placed to promote the importance of Australia Day to mainstream Australia, or to secure corporate sponsorship for the NADC.

Other useful sources of investment information are business magazines such as Fortune, Forbes, The Economist, Business Week, etc., and various corporate " watchdog " organisations and non-governmental organization publications.

Speaking in 2005, SEC Chief Economist Chester S. Spatt offered the following opinion on the transparency of corporate bond markets:

The Economist Group runs the Economist Corporate Network, the premier network of C-level executives from over 500 of the largest companies around the world.

The Office of the Chief Economist is an independent office with responsibility for providing expert economic advice to the Commission.

The Economist wrote, “ WINS is a place where, for the first time, those with the practical responsibility for looking after nuclear materials — governments, power plant operators, laboratories, universities — can meet to swap ideas and develop best practices .”

As Chief Economist, Summers stated in a 1991 interview: “ There are no ... limits to the carrying capacity of the earth that are likely to bind any time in the foreseeable future.

Economist Mark Blaug has criticized over-reliance on methodological individualism, " it is helpful to note what methodological individualism strictly interpreted ... would imply for economics.

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.

Economist Holland Hunter, in addition, argues in his Overambitious First Soviet Five-Year Plan, that an array " of alternative paths were available, evolving out of the situation existing at the end of the 1920s ... that could have been as good as those achieved by, say, 1936 yet with far less turbulence, waste, destruction and sacrifice.

In the summer of 2009, The Economist magazine said " he debate over health care ... may be the pinnacle of the group ’ s power so far " and quoted Charlie Stenholm, a founding Blue Dog, as saying that " this is the first year for the new kennel in which their votes are really going to make a difference.

The Economist called it “ an excellent history of American nuclear policy ... a clear, readable book .”

The Economist notes that China " has been careful not to encourage these language centres to act as overt purveyors of the party ’ s political viewpoints, and little suggests they are doing so ... but officials do say that an important goal is to give the world a “ correct ” understanding of China.

This prompted the English periodical The Economist to write in 1855 that " never, perhaps, was a change so vehemently and generally demanded, of which the importance was so much overrated.

There are also many German speaking Swiss, generally assumed as Germans, of whom some notable descendants are: Presidents Eduardo Frei ( father and son ) and Economist Hernán Büchi.

Economist Richard Florida notes this trend generally and more specifically among the " creative class ".

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In English-language use, like the dollar sign ($) and the pound sign (£), the euro sign is generally placed before the figure, as used by publications such as the Financial Times and The Economist.

The Economist has suggested that improvements to bankruptcy law, land transfer law, and tax laws will aid Japan's economy.

The Economist described Saddam as " one of the last of the 20th century's great dictators, but not the least in terms of egotism, or cruelty, or morbid will to power ".

Nobel Prize winning Economist and former Enron advisor Paul Krugman has been very critical of this program arguing the non-recourse loans lead to a hidden subsidy that will be split by asset managers, banks ' shareholders and creditors.

In a 2004 journal article Economist Alex Tabarrok argues that allowing organ sales, and elimination of organ donor lists will increase supply, lower costs and diminish social anxiety towards organ markets.

The Economist predicted that surge across the poverty line should continue for a couple of decades and the global middle class will grow enormously between now and 2030.

* The Economist predicted that in the years after 2009 the United Kingdom will suffer an energy crisis due to its commitments to reduce coal-fired power stations, its politicians ' unwillingness to set up new nuclear power stations to replace those that will be de-commissioned, and unreliable sources and sources that are running out of oil and gas.

The Economist predicted: ' the special relationship, declared dead scores of times since Suez, will soon face another burial '.

Economist George Reisman, a proponent of tax cuts, said the following: " Of course, many people will characterize the line of argument I have just given as the ' trickle-down ' theory.

In his press release, Donovan says Harvard Medical School Professor and Economist Thomas McGuire will undertake research regarding the medical work at the Andrews Institute.

Economist Robin Hahnel notes that, even if central planning overcame its inherent inhibitions of incentives and innovation, it would nevertheless be unable to maximize economic democracy and self-management, which he believes are concepts that are more intellectually coherent, consistent and just than mainstream notions of economic freedom.

Economist Friedrich List summed up the advantages to be derived from the development of the railway system in 1841:

Holding, another Luxembourg-registered group that, according to The Economist, " is almost certain to be controlled by the Kamprad family.

* According to the Economist, a railway line is to be built through Imphal in India to Moreh near the Burmese border.

Abdullahi Mohammed Hussein of Telecom Somalia explained this by stating that " the government post and telecoms company used to have a monopoly but after the regime was toppled, we were free to set up our own business ", The Economist cited the telephone industry in anarchic Somalia as " a vivid illustration of the way in which governments … can often be more of a hindrance than a help.

According to the Economist Intelligence Unit in 2008, Uruguay scored an 8. 08 in the Democracy Index and ranked 23rd amongst the 30 countries considered to be Full Democracies in the world.

" The Economist voiced worries that orbital platforms might be used for surprise nuclear attacks.

Economist Robert Solow of MIT suggested that the 2001-2003 failure of the expected economic recovery should be attributed not to monetary policy failure but to the breakdown in productivity growth in crucial sectors of the economy, most particularly retail trade.

The names of The Economist editors and correspondents can be located, however, via the media directory pages of the website.

These turn out to be issues of The Economist, one of which features the headline " New challenges for Indonesia ".

In 2009, Harare was voted to be the toughest city to live in according to the Economist Intelligence Unit's livability poll.

A Doctorate in Economics is the most respected ones to be called as Economist.

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 ".

Economist Eugene Fama said, " I take the market efficiency hypothesis to be the simple statement that security prices fully reflect all available information.

The Economist wrote in its 21 February 1998 issue, " Tilt technology, to be sure, got off to a disastrous start in 1981.

The Economist obituary on Haughey ( 24 June 2006 ) asserted that he had warned the bank " I can be a very troublesome adversary ".

But The Economist also cautioned that some bank failures are also to be expected and some banks may not have any reserves left for financing commercial and industrial enterprises.

The Economist argued that donating kidneys is no more risky than surrogate motherhood, which can be done legally for pay in most countries.

The Journal's views can be compared with those of the British publication The Economist with its emphasis on free markets.

An exception is the British weekly The Economist, which may be the world's only un-bylined paper.

However, in February 2009, The Economist suggested accelerating Bulgaria's path to the euro, or even letting it be adopted immediately.