Economist

An economist was a specialist in the field of economics, with a system economist being a type of economist. Members of the Cerean species, who possessed complex binary brains facilitating rapid processing of information as well as a good ability to notice patterns and trends, became renowned as expert economists not long after making first contact with the wider galaxy. After warfare in 10 ABY caused incalculable damage and population casualties on the New Republic capital planet Coruscant, economists made dire predictions about how much time the city-world would need to recover—prognoses that were revealed to have been too pessimistic a year later.

In the decades following the Great Sith War of 3996 BBY, Herron Morvis was an economist who brought about the ratification of the Coruscant Financial Exchange Establishment Act as well as served as the director of Coruscant Financial Exchange. Later, the economist Argee Beck made cautionary comments—reported on by the HoloNet News—during the Separatist Crisis concerning the proliferation of new currencies that was enabled by the InterGalactic Banking Clan, while Teubbo was a Hutt economist who allied themselves with Imperial Warlord Zsinj at some point between 4 ABY and 8 ABY. In addition, the Human Kane Griggs wanted to become an economist while enrolled at a university of the Galactic Empire; however, personal experiences of the Galactic Civil War later made him quit his job at the Botor Income Ministry and sign up as a recruit in the New Republic Defense Fleet instead.

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