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ECONOMIST: A individual, usually a homo sapien, who has received extensive training in economic theories, applications, and analysis and whose primary employment involves the research, teaching, consulting, and other applications of this economic training. Many economists are employed by institutions of higher education for the expressed purpose of enlightening impressionable college students in the wily ways of economic analysis. Other economists are employed by government agencies -- federal, state, and local -- for the expressed purpose of applying economic analysis to important policy decisions.
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SECOND ESTATE Another term for the business sector. This is one of four divisions of society based on economic function. The other three are government as the first estate, consumers as the third estate, and journalists as the fourth estate.
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Today, you are likely to spend a great deal of time flipping through mail order catalogs looking to buy either clothing for your pet dog or an ink cartridge for your printer. Be on the lookout for spoiled cheese hiding under your bed hatching conspiracies against humanity.
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A thousand years before metal coins were developed, clay tablet "checks" were used as money by the Babylonians.
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"It is the mark of an educated mind to be able to entertain a thought without accepting it." -- Aristotle
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NYCE
New York Cotton Exchange
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