Economist Murray Rothbard wrote that " Bastiat was indeed a lucid and superb writer, whose brilliant and witty essays and fables to this day are remarkable and devastating demolitions of protectionism and of all forms of government subsidy and control.

* 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.

Economist Murray Rothbard called Social Statics " the greatest single work of libertarian political philosophy ever written.

* Murray Rothbard ( BW ' 42 ), Economist / Historian / Political Philosopher

* Economist and philosopher Murray Rothbard ( until the 1950s )

Economist Murray Rothbard called the laws " draconian: long jail sentences for heroin pushers and addicts.

Economist Murray Rothbard called Social Statics " the greatest single work of libertarian political philosophy ever written.

The Economist noted, " Laurie Williams of the University of Utah in Salt Lake City has shown that paired programmers are only 15 % slower than two independent individual programmers, but produce 15 % fewer bugs.

The crisis underlined a basic flaw in Peru's economy as pointed out by The Economist, which noted that " some 70 % of output falls within the grey or informal " economy, and thus escapes tax.

The April 17, 2008, edition of The Economist noted Bowdoin in an article on university admissions: " So-called ' almost-Ivies ' such as Bowdoin and Middlebury also saw record low admission rates this year ( 18 % each ).

In 2012, The Economist noted:

It was noted by the Economist that little progress has been made on curbing corruption.

The Economist noted " The danger starts with his example: after all, a young, black, progressive politician has no chance of reaching the highest office in Cuba, although a majority of the island ’ s people are black "

* Gérard Roland, noted Economist, born in 1954.

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.

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.

The Economist noted that Confucius Institutes are used to project China's soft power and win the support of an external audience, and Confucius was specifically chosen to cast an image of peace and harmony.

The Economist noted that " whatever is hybrid, fluid and unpoliced about English delights him ".

The Economy of Angola is one of the fastest-growing economies in the world, with the Economist asserting that for 2001 to 2010, Angolas ' Annual average GDP growth was 11. 1 percent.

Economist Paul Krugman commented that the incident showed that " the imperatives of crony capitalism trump professed faith in free markets ," at least for the Department of Agriculture at the time.

The Economist criticised Ricardo for his lack of support for free trade and expressed hostility to welfare, believing that the lower orders were responsible for their economic circumstances.

The Economist took the position that regulation of factory hours was harmful to workers and also strongly opposed state support for education, health, the provision of water, and granting of patents and copyrights.

The Economist Intelligence Unit's ranking for Finland's e-readiness is high at 13th, compared to 1st for United States, 3rd for Sweden, 5th for Denmark, and 14th for Germany.

Nonetheless, the belief in this status persisted for years, even finding its way onto UNESCO's own web site, into the pages of the New York Times and The Economist, and into international media reports in respect of Toronto's two Olympic bids.

In August 1956 he was sent to Beirut as a Middle East correspondent for The Observer and The Economist.

The Economist Intelligence Unit reports that foreign investment accounts for approximately 50 percent of total banking capital.

The Economist described the sentiments, stating that " Much as Adolf Hitler won early praise for galvanising German industry, ending mass unemployment and building autobahns, Saddam earned admiration abroad for his deeds.

The story had already been described as a myth in 1973 ; the Economist quoted a Mr Maney as " revealing that Watson never made his oft-quoted prediction that there was ' a world market for maybe five computers '".

Economist Jeffrey D. Sachs criticizes the First Past The Post arrangement for enabling the two-party system:

Economist Pat Choate was nominated for Vice President.

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

Economist Thomas DiLorenzo notes that Senator Sherman sponsored the 1890 William McKinley tariff just three months after the Sherman Act, and agrees with The New York Times which wrote on October 1, 1890: " That so-called Anti-Trust law was passed to deceive the people and to clear the way for the enactment of this Pro-Trust law relating to the tariff.

The author of a piece is named in certain circumstances: when notable persons are invited to contribute opinion pieces ; when journalists of The Economist compile special reports ( previously known as surveys ); for the Year in Review special edition ; and to highlight a potential conflict of interest over a book review.

The Economist frequently receives letters from senior businesspeople, politicians and spokespeople for government departments, non-governmental organisations and lobbies, but well written or witty responses from anyone are considered, and controversial issues frequently produce a torrent of letters.

It is extremely rare for any comment by The Economist to appear alongside any published letter.

In addition, The Economist is known for its Big Mac Index, which it first published in 1986, which uses the price of the hamburger in different countries as an informal measure of the purchasing power of currencies.

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.

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.

Economist Eli Berman argues that Radical Islam is a better term for many post-1920s movements starting with the Muslim Brotherhood, because these movements are seen to practice " unprecedented extremism ", thus not qualifying as return to historic fundamentals.

Economist Anthony Downs argues that rush hour traffic congestion is inevitable because of the benefits of having a relatively standard work day.

Economist Lok Sang Ho in his Public Policy and the Public Interest ( Routledge, 2012, published 2011 ) argues that the public interest must be assessed impartially and therefore defines the public interest as the " ex ante welfare of the representative individual.

The Economist considers it a centre-right party, communist only in name, whereas Romanian political scientist Vladimir Tismăneanu argues that the party is communist in the classical sense, as it has not changed much since the fall of the Soviet Union.

Economist Ronald Wintrobe argues that many extremist movements, even though having completely different ideologies share a common set of characteristics.

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.

Economist Frank J. Fabozzi argues that it is not rational for investors to agree to disagree ; they must work toward consensus, even if they have different information.

Economist Steven Suranovic argues that negative reciprocity occurs when an action that has a negative effect upon someone else is reciprocated with an action that has approximately equal negative effect upon another.

Economist Thomas Sowell in his Knowledge and Decisions argues that since the original designers of the Constitution provided for the process of changing it, they never intended for their original words to change meaning.

Economist and anarcho-capitalist Walter Block characterizes Carson as a Marxist, for his embrace of labor value exploitation theory, and argues that Carson's philosophy is full of errors, mostly due to his acceptance of the labor theory of value.

Birny Birnbaum, Consulting Economist, argues that insurance credit scoring is inherently unfair to consumers and violates basic risk classification principles.