BERKELEY It is said that the early nineteenth century British economist J.R. McCulloch originated the old joke that the only training a parrot needs to be a passable political economist is one phrase supply and demand, supply and demand.

This problem was highlighted as far back as the 1960 s by the Belgian economist Robert Triffin, and, more recently, by the late Italian economist Tommaso Padoa Schioppa.

The most interesting contemporary contribution is by the Oxford economist Paul Collier.

Professional skills Economist

The hypothesis was formulated by the economist Michael Porter in an article in 1995.

Economist Jordi Galí writes in a Catalan newspaper op ed translated by the Wilson Initiative

A commission headed by Sir John Vickers, the Oxford economist and former Bank of England chief economist, wants banks retail operations to be ring fenced from riskier trading and investment banking businesses.

An Economist for the Ages

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Creative destruction, the process of innovation described by the economist Joseph Schumpeter, will be at work.

Today, such talk has been displaced by concern about what The Economist calls the great slowdown.

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They based their conclusions on new research for the Copenhagen Consensus project by Australian economist Kym Anderson.

The training methodologies systematically applied by UNITAR to all its training activities are

Spearheaded by the economist Peter Bauer in the 1980 s, it became the nostrum of the Washington Consensus.

The campaign is enthusiastically endorsed by a leading US economist and trade specialist, the Nobel laureate Paul Krugman.

The Economist , 2 July 1994, pp 66.

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Economist Robert Gordon takes this idea even further.

Since November 2011, Italy has been led not by a politician, but by an academic economist and a former European Union commissioner, Mario Monti.

Finally, the theme of equal treatment is used by the consultancy MKB adviseurs' and by the training bureau MKB cursus training'.

Bush was described by The Economist as obsessed by the idea of being a transformational president not just a status quo operator like Bill Clinton.

This National Level Training Programme is to be implemented by the member countries with the trainers, trained by the Commonwealth, for which Training Manual and other training materials or assistance would be provided by the Commonwealth Secretariat.

The neo Keynesian economist wants to boost demand generally.

The economist Paul Krugman calls this the confidence fairy.

Ms. Dilek Aykut, Economist, International Finance Team, World Bank

Mr. Andrea Goldstein, Senior Economist, OECD Development Centre, Paris

That is the intriguing hypothesis of a recent study by the French economist Thomas Piketty of the Paris School of Economics.

A study by the economist Homi Kharas of the Brookings Institution gives us a sense of the scale of this change.

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2001 Training on Human Rights, organized by UNHCR

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The in service training programme was boosted by the construction and renovation of regional training centres in Bo, Kenema and Makeni, funded by UNDP.

Economist Simon Kuznets proposed the existence of a sharp rise in inequality upon industrialization, followed by a decline to social democratic levels.

The analogy popularized by the great monetarist economist Milton Friedman was that the central bank could always deal with deflationary problems by dropping money from a helicopter.

So I readily plead guilty to my economist critic s charge.

The Economist snidely referred to the results in quotation marks.

As an economist, I find this state of affairs frustrating.

Mr. Juan Carluccio, Economist, Economic and International Relations Unit, Nestlé

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