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Business Definition for: Economist

  • somebody who studies the consumption, distribution, and production of wealth in a society

Wiktionary Definition for: Economist

  • An expert in economics, especially one who studies economic data and extracts higher-level information or proposes theories

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Economist.com Considering Charging For All Content
It was in October, on stage at our Future Of Business Media conference, that The Economist publisher Paul Rossi first wondered about the resurrection of the paid content model.Now the website, which, since 2007, has charged only for stories more than a year old, tells us MediaWeek’s report that...
Tags: Economist, Web Site Development, Web Technology, Internet, Companies, Pearson, Robert Andrews
External links 2009-09-08
Quebecor World and The Economist Clarify Media Reports.
MONTREAL, CANADA, Mar 19, 2008 Marketwire via COMTEX -- Quebecor World Inc. (TSX:IQW) and The Economist Newspaper N.A., publisher of The Economist magazine would like to clarify media reports with respect to The Economist's decision to exercise its MONTREAL, CANADA, Mar 19, 2008 Marketwire via COMTEX...
Tags: Clarify
Research articles 2008-03-19
Should You Hire the More Beautiful Candidate? Ask an Economist
Should You Hire the More Beautiful Candidate? Ask an EconomistSex SellsYou can report the findings from research at the University of New Mexico and the University of Texas as disappointing, but it should not come as a surprise to anyone. Marketing has long held that "sex sells". In...
Tags: marketing, More Beautiful Candidate, qualification
Discussion threads 2008-01-04
Pitt recruiting SEC economist.
As part of an effort to focus the Securities and Exchange Commission on economic issues, chairman Harvey L. Pitt said he is looking for a "highly regarded" economist to fill the post of chief economist that has been vacant at the agency f As...
Tags: recruiting, SEC
Research articles 2001-11-12
Expectation of global recovery premature: Economist, BUSINESS TIMES
Business Times Malaysia 06-07-2001 IT MAY be premature to expect aggressive monetary easing worldwide will revive global growth any time soon, says economist Kostas Panagiotou. The economist from Singapore's Kim Eng Securities expects prod Business Times Malaysia...
Tags: OECD, recovery
Research articles 2001-06-07
Quebecor World and The Economist Clarify Media Reports
Quebecor World Inc. (TSX: IQW) and The Economist Newspaper N.A., publisher of The Economist magazine would like to clarify media reports with respect to The Economist's decision to exercise its contractual rights with Quebecor World by notifying Quebecor World that it intends for the Print Agreement to terminate at the...
Tags: Clarify
Research articles 2008-03-19
The Economist Intelligence Unit teams up with the Financial Times to create a new decision-support tool for global executives.
M2 PRESSWIRE-25 February 2004-ECONOMIST INTELLIGENCE UNIT: The Economist Intelligence Unit teams up with the Financial Times to create a new decision-support tool for global executivesC1994-2004 M2 COMMUNICATIONS LTD RDATE:02252004 The Economist Intelligence Unit and the Financial Times are pooling resources...
Tags: analysis, economist, Financial Times, team, tool
Research articles 2004-02-25
Economist Freund, journalist Gergen will speak at Congress of Cities. (William Freund, David Gergen)
William Freund, a nationally-known economist who served as senior vice president and chief economist of the New York Stock Exchange for 18 years, will be the keynote speaker at the Opening General Session on Sunday, Novermber 19. Freund replaces Harvard Economist Robert B. Reich...
Tags: economist, Leadership, NYSE Euronext, U.S. Congress
Research articles 1992-11-23
The Economist Tests Phone-Based Delivery Service
Add this to the list of paid content scenarios currently being tested by news publishers ... The Economist has rolled out an cellphone-based delivery service in New York, per AdAge. Each Thursday, the financial publication will send out a text detailing the topics for the coming week’s issue, complete...
Tags: Phone, Economist, Sales Strategy, Managed Hosting, Cloud Computing, Operational Accounting, Sales, Finance, E-Commerce, Media & Publishing, Newspapers, Mobile, Tameka Kee
External links 2009-09-03
The Economist Intelligence Unit re-launches 'Industry Briefings'.
M2 PRESSWIRE-4 May 2006-ECONOMIST INTELLIGENCE UNIT: The Economist Intelligence Unit re-launches 'Industry Briefings'C1994-2006 M2 COMMUNICATIONS LTD RDATE:04052006 The Economist Intelligence Unit announced today that it has re-launched Industry Briefings, a suite of websites which provide daily events analysis for 8...
Tags: The Economist Intelligence Unit Ltd.
Research articles 2006-05-04
-ECONOMIST INTELLIGENCE UNIT: Economist Intelligence Unit and Jacobs Software strengthen alliance.
M2 PRESSWIRE-23 September 1998-ECONOMIST INTELLIGENCE UNIT: Economist Intelligence Unit and Jacobs Software strengthen alliance C1994-98 M2 COMMUNICATIONS LTD RDATE:220998 The Economist Intelligence Unit EIU, one of the world's leading sources of business forecasting and analysis, and Jacobs Software BV, the...
Tags: The Economist Intelligence Unit Ltd.
Research articles 1998-09-23
The Economist Intelligence Unit launches 'ViewsWire Plus'.
M2 PRESSWIRE-26 October 2005-ECONOMIST INTELLIGENCE UNIT: The Economist Intelligence Unit launches 'ViewsWire Plus'C1994-2005 M2 COMMUNICATIONS LTD RDATE:25102005 The Economist Intelligence Unit announced today that it has launched the new ViewsWire Plus, a premier daily intelligence service that provides executives with...
Tags: The Economist Intelligence Unit Ltd.
Research articles 2005-10-26
The Economist Intelligence Unit launches 'ViewsWire Plus'.
M2 PRESSWIRE-25 October 2005-ECONOMIST INTELLIGENCE UNIT: The Economist Intelligence Unit launches 'ViewsWire Plus'C1994-2005 M2 COMMUNICATIONS LTD RDATE:25102005 The Economist Intelligence Unit announced today that it has launched the new ViewsWire Plus, a premier daily intelligence service that provides executives with...
Tags: The Economist Intelligence Unit Ltd.
Research articles 2005-10-25
The Economist Intelligence Unit launches 'World Investment Service'.
M2 PRESSWIRE-25 April 2006-ECONOMIST INTELLIGENCE UNIT: The Economist Intelligence Unit launches 'World Investment Service'C1994-2006 M2 COMMUNICATIONS LTD RDATE:25042006 The Economist Intelligence Unit announced today that it has launched the new World Investment Service. Developed by the Economist Intelligence Unit in...
Tags: The Economist Intelligence Unit Ltd.
Research articles 2006-04-25
ECONOMIST INTELLIGENCE UNIT: The Economist In Intelligence Unit launches new online store.
M2 PRESSWIRE-7 September 1999-ECONOMIST INTELLIGENCE UNIT: The Economist Intelligence Unit launches new online store C1994-99 M2 COMMUNICATIONS LTD RDATE:080999 * Offering instant access to global business intelligence Building on the success of eiu.com -- a web-based global intelligence...
Tags: The Economist Intelligence Unit Ltd.
Research articles 1999-09-07
Economist.com Builds Its Pay Wall Higher, But All The New Stuff Stays Free
Economist.com is taking two steps to charge for more content…—Already charging for articles older than 12 months, it’s extending the threshold to those over 90 days old.—And it’s making the digital print edition replica accessible only to subscribers.The press release calls this “experimentation with a new website pay wall”....
Tags: Magazine, Wall, Economist.com, Construction, Web Site Development, Web Technology, Internet, Companies, Pearson, Economist, Robert Andrews
External links 2009-10-06
The Economist introduces pay wall for archive content
The existing pay-wall, which allows non-subscribers to the magazine web access to editorial published within the past 12 months, free of charge, will now apply to all content more than 90 days old. In addition, the section of The Economist's website that allows users to browse the current edition of...
Tags: Economist
News items 2009-10-06
Should You Hire the More Beautiful Candidate? Ask an Economist
Beauty and business are not necessarily topics you'd think of as going together, but most of us have heard of studies linking good looks and career advancement. It certainly doesn't seem fair, but is it true? In a strange choice of Christmas special, the Economist recently took a look...
Tags: Jessica Stillman, Finance, Career, Financial Accounting, Professional Development, Dr Hamermesh, Beauty, Economist
Blog posts 2008-01-03
The business economist at work: KPMG Peat Marwick LLP
Many of the articles that have appeared in this space have been written by corporate economists, who have redefined the role of the economist in their organizations so that the economist acts in the role of internal consultant to many different parts of the organization. This new perspective of the...
Research articles 1997-07-01
The business economist at work: The Bechtel Group
THE WORK of every business economist is shaped by three main forces: the industry in which the economist works, the particular firm within the industry; and the individual's background, capabilities and predilections. I suspect that few economists' jobs are cut and dried by a formal description and that most of...
Tags: Bechtel Group
Research articles 1994-01-01
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