How to Use economics in a Sentence

economics

noun
  • From an economics standpoint, the math is simple.
    — Joe Kinsey Outkick, FOXNews.com, 24 Apr. 2026
  • And a basic rule of economics is that prices tend to climb when demand outstrips supply.
    — Mary Cunningham, CBS News, 13 Apr. 2026
  • A lot of the rest of us in the economics discipline and on Main Street agree.
    — Edward Lotterman, Twin Cities, 5 Apr. 2026
  • One of the first lessons of economics is that incentives shape behavior.
    — Richard W. Rahn, Fortune, 27 May 2026
  • Whiting added that Johnson was in his economics class three years later.
    — Mike Danahey, Chicago Tribune, 30 Apr. 2026
  • The technology is proven, and the economics work.
    — Todd Larsen, Baltimore Sun, 20 Apr. 2026
  • Do the economics support profitable growth?
    — Matthew Nigro, Forbes.com, 11 June 2026
  • Freese earned his economics degree in 2022.
    — Sean Gregory, Time, 10 June 2026
  • Harris has an economics background.
    — Cody Stavenhagen, New York Times, 26 Jan. 2026
  • In economics terms, the human touch is a normal good, something that a richer society demands more of.
    — Adam Ozimek, The Atlantic, 11 Mar. 2026
  • Ryan Bourne is an economics scholar at the Cato Institute.
    — Ryan Bourne, Washington Post, 17 June 2026
  • The economics student disagreed that this alone explained the kill line’s virality.
    — Lavender Au, The Atlantic, 2 Mar. 2026
  • His indictment of economics is neither mild nor limited.
    — Jonathan Chait, The Atlantic, 26 May 2026
  • Young has an economics degree from Wake Forest, the alma mater of Arnold Palmer.
    — Dallas Morning News, 7 Mar. 2026
  • Hartman has an economics degree and has been seeking a consulting or business strategy role.
    — Alex Harring, CNBC, 3 Oct. 2025
  • At the time, most of the economics profession was smitten with a cartoonish picture of human behavior.
    — Greg Rosalsky, NPR, 11 Nov. 2025
  • The economics prize was added almost 70 years later, to mark the tercentenary of Sweden's central bank.
    — Scott Horsley, NPR, 13 Oct. 2025
  • The central challenge is no longer whether data can be collected, but how much high-quality data can be afforded before the economics break.
    — Ni Tao, Interesting Engineering, 20 Apr. 2026
  • And, finally, from an economics point of view, researchers found that among all subjects medication costs decreased by 77%.
    — Bryant Stamford, Louisville Courier Journal, 6 Nov. 2025
  • Somebody once said that economics is the only field in which two people can share a Nobel Prize for saying exactly the opposite things.
    — Arkansas Online, 23 Mar. 2026
  • That apparent paradox — greater output bringing less income — contains an economics lesson.
    — Edward Lotterman, Twin Cities, 17 Aug. 2025
  • Lynn’s insistence that the entire field of economics is a lie has, perhaps unsurprisingly, failed to persuade many economists.
    — Jonathan Chait, The Atlantic, 26 May 2026
  • Gary Smith, an economics professor at Pomona College and author, has warned about an AI bubble.
    — The Los Angeles Times, Boston Herald, 22 Nov. 2025
  • Law was his second career, following a decade as a history and economics teacher in the Los Angeles public schools.
    — Peter Elkind, ProPublica, 27 Aug. 2025
  • Lynch is an economics professor at Washington College.
    — Suzanne Gamboa, NBC news, 16 Aug. 2025
  • At the end of Gu and Koong’s final presentation in an economics class on the Chinese economy, Gu was asked about her switch.
    — Charlotte Harpur, New York Times, 21 Feb. 2026
  • Buying Retention Instead Of Building It The line is where unit economics break.
    — Expert Panel®, Forbes.com, 22 May 2026
  • Tibor Besedes, an economics professor at Georgia Tech, says that reflects the state's broader appeal to businesses.
    — Monique John, CBS News, 19 Dec. 2025
  • The Fed, the economics profession and the rest of the financial and commercial world are victims of a profound misunderstanding about inflation.
    — Steve Forbes, Forbes.com, 12 June 2026
  • Understanding the actual economics matters, because the physicians most committed to vaccinating children are often the ones making the least from it.
    — Jess Steier, STAT, 29 Jan. 2026

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