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HES: QUERY -- origin of "economist"
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[log in to unmask] (Scott Cullen)
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Fri Mar 31 17:18:19 2006
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Someone may have already mentioned this... I haven't followed the  
whole thread.... but 30 odd years ago in my undergraduate political  
economy lectures I recall that the derivation of "economics" was the  
Greek, oikon nomos or "house (maybe home) rules."   
 
Scott Cullen 
 
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