Economist Walter Heller, chairman of the Council of Economic Advisers in the 1960s, said that " I call it a Reagan-Volcker-Carter recession.

* Bagehot ( Britain ) — named for Walter Bagehot (), nineteenth-century British constitutional expert and early editor of The Economist.

The magazine The Economist was initiated during September 1843 by politician James Wilson with help from the Anti-Corn Law League ; his son-in-law Walter Bagehot later became the editor of this newspaper.

Economist Walter Block was a recent Kurzweg Fellow, due to the events of Hurricane Katrina.

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.

In 1868 he became Walter Bagehot's assistant-editor on The Economist ; and his services were also secured in 1873 as city editor of the Daily News, and later of The Times.

Economist Walter Block has described this volume as " excruciatingly brilliant.

* Bagehot, Walter, St John Stevas, Norman ( Editor ): The Collected Works of Walter Bagehot: Volumes 1 – 15, The Economist / Harvard University Press ( 1965 – 1986 )

Walter Bagehot of The Economist newspaper in London argued that the new nation should be called ' Northland ' or ' Anglia ' instead of Canada.

" The Economist characterizes the party as " mildly Islamist " while Reuters refers to the AKP as " Islamist-rooted " and " Islamic-leaning.

The Economist characterizes Knight's claim that voluntary human extinction is advisable due to limited resources as " Malthusian bosh ".

Simms characterizes The Economist as being " a longstanding opponent of military intervention " in Bosnia, pointing to its editorials of July 1995, when the 1995 NATO bombing campaign in Bosnia and Herzegovina was underway, and to Bill Emmott's own letter to the publication, which rejected " intervention in this three-cornered civil war, a war which all along has risked escalation into a far wider conflict with even ghastlier consequences ", as evidence of this.

* 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.

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

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

Economist Hyman Minsky also described a " paradox of deleveraging " as financial institutions that have too much leverage ( debt relative to equity ) cannot all de-leverage simultaneously without significant declines in the value of their assets.

The newsmagazine The Economist estimated that up to 75 % of the value of US public companies is now based on their intellectual property ( up from 40 % in 1980 ).

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.

In June 2012 the price of the Big Mac value meal suddenly rose by 26 %, closer to that of other meals, after The Economist, The New York Times, and other media reported on the unusual pricing.

* The Tippie School of Management's full-time MBA program is in the top 3 % of MBA programs in the U. S. The program is ranked in many categories by several different organizations including: 20th overall and the 4th fastest payback ( U. S .) by Forbes ; 20th for public universities and 40th overall ( U. S .) by U. S. News ; 64th overall ( world ), 32nd overall ( U. S .), 9th in finance, 1st for employment percentage ( 11th in the world ), 3rd for value, 15th for placement success ( 19th in the world ) and 17th for aims achieved by Financial Times ; 37th ( North America ) and 15th ( U. S .) by The Economist ;.

Economist Paul Mattick argued that the subjective theory of value leads to circular reasoning.

On May 1, 2002, Economist and former Ambassador Ernest H. Preeg testified before the Senate committee on Banking, Housing, and Urban Affairs that China, for instance, pegs its currency to the dollar at a sub-par value in violation of Article IV of the International Monetary Fund Articles of Agreement which state that no nation shall manipulate its currency to gain a market advantage.

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

American Economist Richard Easterlin developed a theory ( the Easterlin hypothesis ) to account for the Baby Boom.

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.

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.

Economist Dean Baker disagrees and says that “ housing wealth effect ” is well-known and is a standard part of economic theory and modeling, and that economists expect households to consume based on their wealth.