A person who supports the theory that efficiency and productivity should be the primary measures of economic success.
like all economic rationalists, he regards subsidies and intervention as anathema to a modern economy
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- This description of economic rationalism is primarily based on its enemies' assumptions, not on economic rationalists' actual views.
- This attitude is no way to get off the economic rationalist treadmill.
- We tend to be economic rationalists with hearts of gold.
- The bank hit an overdraft straight from some economic rationalist hell.
- What the country needs is an economic rationalist that likes a punt.
- None of the cited publications is clear about what economic rationalists believe.
- The role of the courts as consumers of legal services is often completely overlooked by people who regard themselves as economic rationalists.
- These discourses are consistent with an economic rationalist worldview.
- Economics is suffering from the domination of economic rationalist theories.
- I have been described at various times by my political opponents as an economic rationalist.