Economist
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This article is about the profession. For the news publication, see The Economist. For other uses, see Economist (disambiguation).
An economist is a professional and practitioner in the social science discipline of economics.
The examples and perspective in this article deal primarily with the English-speaking world and do not represent a worldwide view of the subject. (May 2015) |
The individual may also study, develop, and apply theories and concepts from economics and write about economic policy. Within this field there are many sub-fields, ranging from the broad philosophical theories to the focused study of minutiae within specific markets, macroeconomic analysis, microeconomic analysis or financial statement analysis, involving analytical methods and tools such as econometrics, statistics, economics computational models, financial economics, mathematical finance and mathematical economics.