How to Use economics in a Sentence

economics

noun
  • At the end of the day, the field of economics is not about numbers or theory.
    Betsy Klein, CNN, 8 Dec. 2022
  • Once upon a time, economics and sympathy were one and the same.
    Corey Robin, The New York Review of Books, 17 Nov. 2022
  • Paul Krugman won the Nobel Prize for economics, so that’s a pretty good start.
    Q.ai - Powering A Personal Wealth Movement, Forbes, 11 Oct. 2022
  • Then there’s a new work with a title that runs 90 words, as though lifted from an economics textbook.
    Amy Verner, Vogue, 12 June 2023
  • Hertenstein’s economics teacher, Kara Jedele, said the impact on the fourth and fifth-grade students was seen as soon as her students left teaching for the first time.
    Caroline Beck, The Indianapolis Star, 5 Jan. 2023
  • Are there even ways for the field of economics to address climate change that aren’t blatantly ghoulish?
    WIRED, 5 Oct. 2022
  • After all, the Knights senior takes an honors economics class.
    Glae Thien, San Diego Union-Tribune, 29 Jan. 2024
  • The economics award capped off a week of Nobel Prize announcements in medicine, physics, chemistry and literature as well as the Peace Prize.
    David Keyton, Chicago Tribune, 10 Oct. 2022
  • The new statistics come from a report by Ray C. Fair, an economics professor at Yale.
    Amelia Nierenberg, New York Times, 5 Dec. 2023
  • The path to 100% BEVs in Europe’s new car market depends on the underlying economics.
    Neil Winton, Forbes, 28 Dec. 2022
  • Unlike the other prizes, the economics award wasn’t established in Alfred Nobel’s will of 1895 but by the Swedish central bank in his memory.
    BostonGlobe.com, 10 Oct. 2022
  • Perhaps the most striking gender discrepancy comes in the field of economics.
    Kim Elsesser, Forbes, 10 Oct. 2022
  • Senator, what is your thinking about this change in economics and change in the political economy over the past decade?
    How To Save A Country, The New Republic, 8 Dec. 2022
  • Homes would become more affordable over time, in a sort of trickle-down economics for the fundamental human right of having a place to live.
    Michael Friedrich, The New Republic, 9 Feb. 2023
  • Stanford economics professor and work-from-home researcher Nicholas Bloom thinks not.
    Paige McGlauflin, Fortune, 8 Nov. 2023
  • The idea of the market as a communion of souls was once the lingua franca of European culture, helping to midwife the birth of economics from the seventeenth to the eighteenth centuries.
    Corey Robin, The New York Review of Books, 17 Nov. 2022
  • What is probably the most maddening about this situation is that the real problem is not at the Fed, but in the economics discipline.
    John T. Harvey, Forbes, 8 Mar. 2023
  • Those roles went instead to leaders with training in economics and social sciences.
    Karen Hao, WSJ, 18 Nov. 2022
  • The switch in the economics profession over the last 20 years or so from a view of the world that was based around more theoretical modeling to a way of looking at the world that was based more on hard data and evidence.
    How To Save A Country, The New Republic, 15 June 2023
  • Not long after that law was enacted, the internet economics for adult creators changed.
    Kat Tenbarge, NBC News, 10 Feb. 2023
  • In 1985, Hanke deployed the principles of Austrian economics to win a huge score in the energy market.
    Shawn Tully, Fortune, 8 Oct. 2022
  • This has been a distressing and deeply angering line in business and, just as importantly, economics for many years.
    Erik Sherman, Forbes, 18 Dec. 2022
  • Supply-side economics has been a failure for most Americans.
    Michael Hiltzik, Los Angeles Times, 24 Oct. 2022
  • Lionel Page is a professor of economics at the University of Queensland.
    Adrian Barnett, STAT, 26 Oct. 2022
  • Salame graduated from UMass Amherst in 2015 with a degree in economics and accounting.
    Anissa Gardizy, BostonGlobe.com, 17 Nov. 2022
  • The retailer has told Wall Street investors that the new format provides improved economics, with higher margins and lower costs versus the old format.
    Dallas News, 9 Nov. 2022
  • Logan Baumann earned his bachelor's degree, summa cum laude, in economics from U of L.
    Stephanie Kuzydym, The Courier-Journal, 29 Dec. 2022
  • This is becoming a trademark for U. Mass–Amherst, whose economics department is known for being ahead of the curve on issues including the minimum wage, price controls, and health care.
    Irina Ivanova, Fortune, 22 Aug. 2023
  • Christopher Waller on the economic outlook at 5 p.m., and Cleveland's Loretta Mester at an economics conference at 6:30 p.m.
    Jeffrey Sparshott, WSJ, 6 Oct. 2022
  • The incentives provided by the legislation appear to be changing the economics for others in the industry, too.
    Phred Dvorak, WSJ, 15 Nov. 2022

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