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 Economist Has No Clothes – essay by Robert Nadeau in Scientific American on the basic assumptions behind current economic theory

Economist Robert J. Gordon has called this the " Triangle Model " because it explains short-run inflationary behavior by three factors: demand inflation ( due to low unemployment ), supply-shock inflation ( gUMC ), and inflationary expectations or inertial inflation.

" The Economist magazine, in September 2008, quoted Robert Zubrin, the author of Energy Victory, as saying: " Hydrogen is ' just about the worst possible vehicle fuel '".

1892 Jan talk, June pub Robert Giffen ( 1837 – 1910, Walter Bagehot's assistant editor at The Economist 1868ff ; 1882-4 President of the Statistical Society ): " An old jest runs to the effect that there are three degrees of comparison among liars.

* Robert G. Williams, Economist, pioneer of Income Shares child support model, founder of Policy Studies, Inc.

" The Economist magazine, in September 2008, quoted Robert Zubrin, the author of Energy Victory, as saying: " Hydrogen is ' just about the worst possible vehicle fuel '".

Earlier books include A Primer on Money, Banking and Gold ( Random House 1965 ), as well as Economist on Wall Street ( Macmillan 1970 ), and The Price of Prosperity ( Doubleday, 1962 ), in addition to two books on government finance co-authored with Robert Heilbroner.

Other regular contributors included Malcolm Hoenlein, the executive vice president of the Conference of Presidents of Major American Jewish Organizations ; the New York attorney and taste-maker Ed Hayes ; Larry Kudlow of CNBC's Kudlow & Company: Bill Whelan of the Hoover Institution: John Fund, Bret Stephens, Dan Henninger, Rob Pollock and Kim Strassel of the Wall Street Journal ; Jim McTague of Barron's Magazine ; Chuck Todd then of the Hotline, now NBC Political Director ; Fiona Harvey and Martin Wolf of the Financial Times ; Jodi Schneider of the Congressional Quarterly ; Matt Bai and A. O. Scott of the New York Times ; Katrina vanden Heuvel and Steve Cohen of The Nation ; Victor Davis Hanson, Henry Miller, and Larry Diamond of the Hoover Institution ; Adrian Wooldridge, Robert Guest, and John Parker of the Economist ; Monica Crowley ; as well as David Grinspoon, resident expert on the planet Mars and outer space, and Robert Zimmerman, award-winning NASA observer.

** Sir Robert Harry Inglis Palgrave ( 1827 – 1919 ), banker, editor of The Economist, & author of Palgrave's Dictionary of Political Economy, predecessor to The New Palgrave dictionary cited herein

* Economist Robert Lekachman ( Class of 1942 );

Economist Robert P. Murphy takes exception to the way the book describes economists and their field, saying the authors end up actually describing econometrics.

Others, such as American economist Robert Shiller of the Case-Shiller Home Price Index of home prices in 20 metro cities across the United States, indicated in May 31, 2011 that a " Home Price Double Dip Confirmed " and British magazine The Economist, argue that housing market indicators can be used to identify real estate bubbles.

Other members of the Board were: The Dean of the Wharton School of Finance and Commerce at the University of Pennsylvania, ex officio, The Chairman of the Department of Economics of the University of Pennsylvania, ex officio, Paul F. Miller, ( Board of Trustees of the University of Pennsylvania ), Dr. Michael K. Evans ( University of Pennsylvania, economics department ), Dr. Paul Taubman ( University of Pennsylvania, economics department ), and Dr. Richard J. Kruizenga ,( Chief Economist and Manager, Corporate and Environmental Economics, Standard Oil Co. of New Jersey ).

Economist Alan J. Auerbach of University of California, Berkeley states that " annual income is not an especially accurate measure of one's ability to pay.

* The Economist: J. B. Jeyaretnam

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.

* Raghuram Rajan, Chief Economist of the International Monetary Fund ( 2003 – 2007 ) and current Eric J. Gleacher Distinguished Service Professor of Finance, University of Chicago Booth School of Business

* 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

Freakonomics: A Rogue Economist Explores the Hidden Side of Everything is a 2005 non-fiction book by University of Chicago economist Steven Levitt and New York Times journalist Stephen J. Dubner.

They were: Donal O ’ Sullivan, University Lecturer ; Garret Fitzgerald, Economist ; Louis P F Smith, Economist ; Denis Corboy, Barrister-at-Law ; George J Colley, Solicitor ; Declan Costello, Barrister-at-Law ; and Sean J Healy, Secretary.

The J Curve: A New Way to Understand Why Nations Rise and Fall ( Simon & Schuster, 2006 ), selected by The Economist as one of the best books of 2006.

In his book The Baseball Economist, J. C. Bradbury titles a chapter, " How Good is Leo Mazzone?

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 Jeffery Hummel is critical of Hayek's explanation of labor asymmetry in booms and busts.

* Grampp, William D. " John Taylor: Economist of Southern Agrarianism ," Southern Economic Journal, Vol.

BrE usage varies, with some authoritative sources such as The Economist and The Times recommending the same usage as in the US, whereas other authoritative sources, such as The King's English, recommend single quotation marks.

Economist Dan Klein shows that the worldwide top-35 economics departments pull 76 percent of their faculty from their own graduates.

One argument often made by the opponents of the anti-globalization movement ( especially by The Economist ), is that one of the major causes of poverty amongst third-world farmers are the trade barriers put up by rich nations and poor nations alike.

In the words of Geoffrey Crowther, then editor of The Economist, " If the economic relationships between nations are not, by one means or another, brought fairly close to balance, then there is no set of financial arrangements that can rescue the world from the impoverishing results of chaos.

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.

In 1958, while still in Singapore, Parkinson published his most famous work Parkinson's Law, a book that expanded upon a humorous article that he had first published in the Economist magazine in November 1955, satirizing government bureaucracies.

From around 1840 to 1860, laissez-faire advocates of the Manchester School and writers in The Economist were confident that their early victories would lead to a period of expanding economic and personal liberty and world peace but would face reversals as government intervention and activity continued to expand from the 1850s.

The strongest defender of laissez-faire was The Economist founded by James Wilson in 1843.

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 also campaigned against the Corn Laws that protected landlords in the United Kingdom of Great Britain and Ireland against competition from less expensive foreign imports of cereal products.

Economist Jeffrey Sachs described the US as a corporatocracy in his book The Price of Civilization.

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.

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.

Democracy Index by The Economist, 2006.

Democracy Index by the Economist Intelligence Unit, 2011.

Economist John Maynard Keynes supported more equal outcomes.

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.

Economist Thomas DiLorenzo suggests that this experience was crucial to Bastiat's later work since it allowed young Frédéric to acquire first-hand knowledge of how regulation can affect markets.

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.