political economist

American  

[puh-lit-i-kuhl-i-kahn-uhm-ist] / pəˈlɪt ɪ kəl ɪˈkɑn əm ɪst /

noun

1. a specialist or student of political economy.

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Example Sentences

Alec Phillips, Goldman Sachs’s chief U.S. political economist, estimated in a Nov. 2 research note that if the shutdown lasts around six weeks, it could reduce quarter-on-quarter annualized real growth in gross domestic product over the final three months of 2025 by 1.15 percentage points, “primarily as a result of federal employee furloughs.”

From MarketWatch

Mr. Bird also discusses land redistribution, from the incremental version favored by Henry George, the 19th-century American political economist, to the violent reforms implemented by Mao Zedong in China.

From The Wall Street Journal

“The ultimate beneficiaries are the large tech companies and their investors,” said Govand Azeez, a political economist at Sydney’s Macquarie University who researches tech sovereignty in Southeast Asia.

From The Wall Street Journal

“The reality is that the U.S. economy is largely today dependent upon foreign born labor — and in California more so,” said Nicholas Eberstadt, a political economist at the American Enterprise Institute, a right-leaning think tank in Washington.

From Los Angeles Times

But Ben Radley, a political economist and lecturer in international development at Bath University, noted that the leader of the political grouping which includes the M23, Corneille Nangaa, was the head of the electoral commission under Kabila and had been a "close ally".

From BBC