Paul Krugman is a great economist, perhaps the best in his generation.

If economics is about building internally consistent models of toy economies from first principles, he wasn't a great economist.

Mr. Friedman was proof that a great economist could become famous for just talking about economics.

There were alleged to be a great many economists at KC.

"Paul is a great economist and a terrific theorist," he said.

He was a great economist, but would spend money as genteelly as any man occasionally.

Perhaps so, but the great economist also saw it as confirming evidence of improving real wages.

We study other worlds' great economists in business school, you know.

All the great economists are saying it.

In fact, almost all the great economists incorporated complex psychology into their thinking.