economist

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If needed, all the Gulf monarchies could sustain the closure of the Strait of Hormuz for many months, limiting Iran’s leverage, said Saudi economist Fawaz al-Fawaz, president of the Jood consulting firm in Riyadh.

From The Wall Street Journal • Apr. 18, 2026

Policymakers might be wrong to wait too long to judge the impact of the conflict in the Middle East on U.K. inflation, the Bank of England’s chief economist said Friday.

From The Wall Street Journal • Apr. 17, 2026

The economist argued that, even if AI makes the cost of providing goods or services cheaper, demand and the need for more employees might go along with it.

From MarketWatch • Apr. 17, 2026

Brian Jabarian, a University of Chicago economist who conducted a rigorous independent evaluation of A.I. detectors, told me flatly, “This narrative that we shouldn’t use A.I. detection doesn’t seem to hold anymore.”

From Slate • Apr. 17, 2026

The economist Kenneth Arrow has proved a very powerful generalization which shows that something like the above situation characterizes every voting system.

From "Innumeracy: Mathematical Illiteracy and Its Consequences" by John Allen Paulos