Some economists prefer a definition of a 1.5% rise in unemployment within 12 months.

Counties tend to be stable political boundaries; economists prefer to work with economic and social statistics based on metropolitan areas.

Most economists would undoubtedly prefer a tax system in which inflation had no effect on how much taxes are paid or when.

By the measurement that many economists prefer, the United States fell further behind.

For this reason, economists often prefer to focus on the employment-to-population rate - the fraction of the population that is working.

While the overall figure is important, many economists prefer to look at what happens to order backlogs to get a reading on future production trends.

However, since most investors would not consider fluctuations above the average return as "risk", some economists prefer other means of measuring it.

Instead of regulatory mandates, economists generally prefer a gasoline tax.

Austrian economists rather prefer to use as a model tool the Homo agens.

Still, economists prefer the auction because it always sells the allowances to the companies that value them the most.