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HES: QUERY -- origin of "economist"
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[log in to unmask] (Goncalo Fonseca)
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Fri Mar 31 17:18:19 2006
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Didn't Robert Owen publish "The Economist" back in 1821 or so  
(for a couple of years, it then folded), a publication popularizing his  
utopian mini-societies?  Might that be the first English usage of the  
term?   
 
Goncalo Fonseca 
 
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