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1604 E. Hake Of Golds Kingdome 4 Anhaldine..(being wise & a good Oeconomist) required those woods to be restored vnto her.

1656 T. Stanley Hist. Philos. II. xv. 96 No wicked man is a good Oeconomist, since only a wise man knoweth from whence, how, and how far gain may be acquired.

1709 Ld. Shaftesbury Moralists iii. i. 184 O wise Oeconomist..whom all the Elements and Powers of Nature serve!

1711 R. Steele Spectator No. 64. ⁋2 He is a good Oeconomist in his extravagance.

1725 R. Bradley Chomel's Dictionaire Œconomique at Lime Every good Oeconomist will purchase as..cheap as he can.

1824 J. Johnson Typographia I. 553 He appears to have been but an indifferent œconomist.

1841 I. D'Israeli Amenities Lit. I. 74 Junius was such a rigid economist of time, that every hour was allotted to its separate work.

1895 Eng. Hist. Rev. 10 152 Like many a stylist Salutati was perhaps no economist of time.

1922 Olean (N.Y.) Evening Herald 16 Feb. 3/3 Not only is Bread the sure builder of healthy, energetic bodies, but is the most efficient economist of money.

1999 R. Wells Lusus 56 Was it this brave carelessness Put paid to the attempt To make an accountant of you? Certainly You were no ‘economist of your person.’

1669 D. North Observ. & Advices Œcon. lix. 88 Our Oeconomist takes it for a Rule, not to disburse any considerable summe.

1758 Herald No. 27. ii. 199 He is an œconomist in his expences.

1771 H. Mackenzie Man of Feeling xxxvi. 204 His aunt was an oeconomist.

1796 J. Morse Amer. Universal Geogr. (new ed.) II. 420 An Italian..must be a rigid economist.

1868 E. A. Freeman Hist. Norman Conquest II. vii. 114 There were economists pressing for the reduction of the public expenditure.

1881 Harper's Mag. Dec. 127/1 The economist, beginning with a little capital, has made herself the happy possessor of a Leghorn bonnet.

1776 I. de Pinto tr. M. de Pinto Lett. on Amer. Troubles 62 The principles of the œconomists [Fr. des Économistes] are erroneous.

1804 Earl of Lauderdale Inq. Nature & Origin Public Wealth v. 354 The œconomists..regarded exchangeable value as the basis of wealth.

1826 R. Whately Elements Logic 303 App. We might expect all Economists to be agreed.

1866 J. E. T. Rogers Hist. Agric. & Prices I. Pref. Those facts which form the special study of the economist.

1903 J. G. Brooks Social Unrest 187 This sorry see-saw in the industrial world is the puzzle of the economist and the despair of the practical man.

1938 Fortune Sept. 64/1 Now of course it is contended by the New Dealers and their economists that government spending increases, or at any rate sustains, production.

1963 A. Koestler in Encounter July 7/1 One need not be an economist to find these figures disconcerting.

1994 Financial Rev. (Sydney) 3 Nov. 24/2 The chief economist at the world's largest mining company predicts metals prices will continue to rise.

2005 S. D. Levitt & S. J. Dubner Freakonomics v. 162 Regression analysis is the tool that enables an economist to sort out these huge piles of data.

1776 A. Smith Inq. Wealth of Nations II. iv. viii. 277 A..considerable sect, distinguished in the French republick of letters by the name of, The Oeconomists . View more context for this quotation

1869 Buckle's Hist. Civilisation Eng. (new ed.) II. vii. 328 Soon after 1755 the economists effected a schism between the nation and the government.

1878 J. Morley Condorcet 33 As a thinker he is roughly classed as an Economist.

1992 J. Hicks in A. Vercelli & N. Dimitri Macroeconomics i. 6 That group who first took to themselves the name of ‘economists’, those who flourished in France between 1750 and the Revolution, and later became known as Physiocrats.

1912 D. M. Wallace Russia (rev. ed.) xxxviii. 696 The struggle between the ‘Economists’, who confined themselves to workmen's grievances, and the ‘Politicals,’ who tried to give the movement a political character.

1949 I. Deutscher Stalin ii. 31 The ‘Economists’ wanted to confine their activities to supporting workers' claims for higher wages and better conditions of work, without bothering about politics.

1955 H. Hodgkinson Doubletalk 46 An Economist is one who accepts a Marxist analysis of society and believes in the inevitable rise of socialism, but maintains that ‘the unaided evolution of inevitable economic changes can bring about the desired revolution without theoretical guidance’.

1966 Slavic Rev. 25 600 All attention was centered on Lenin, who as early as 1895 had had to save St. Petersburg from the Economist infection.