The name first appears in the Hebrew Bible in the Book of Numbers, 13:13 where Sethur the son of Michael is one of 12 spies sent into the Land of Canaan. Michael features in the Book of Daniel 12:1, as the archangel in romanization, and in the Islamic Quran as Mikaeel.
An economist is an expert who studies the relationship between a society's resources and its production or output. The societies studied may range from the smallest of local communities to an entire nation or even the global economy.
In economics. 1  Agent (economics), an actor and decision maker in a model Homo economicus, a model, in some economic theories, of humans as rational and self-interested. 2  Agent-based computational economics, computational study of economic processes modeled as dynamic systems of interacting agents.