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econobonics 

Meaningless gibberish about economics meant to make an ignorant writer sound authoritative.
...in the comments there was some minor quibbling and tut-tutting and a healthy-heapin’ handful of econobonics words like “predictive,” “multi-causal,” “independent predictor,” “differing methodologies,” and “intervening assumptions” ...

(from tbogg at firedoglake dot com, 2010-07-27, "Quivering-with-antici-pation")
econobonics by Tehanu July 28, 2010
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econocentrism

Econocentrism is judging another economic system solely by the values and standards of one's own economic system. Econocentric individuals judge advocates for other economic systems relative to their own economic system, especially with concern for underlying supply and demand principles, with or without formalizing the value of intangible assets like human emotional development or environmental sustainability, and the monolithic implied trustworthiness of market dynamics.

These distinctions and subdivisions among various economic systems serve to define each economists unique philosophical and academic identity. Econocentrism may be overt or subtle, and while it is considered a natural proclivity of western democratic and humanitarian values, it has developed a generally negative connotation as a result of the contemporary outcome of globalized neo-liberal and free-market economic dominance, which has been observed as producing obscene wealth and income inequality, robust destruction of the life supporting planetary ecosystem, and the dismantling of the ability of national political institutions to serve the best interests of their largest constituencies.
The Grove City College holds a peculiar variation of econocentrism, as its core economic curricula is structured to communicate the theory of free-market economics as most notably presented by Von Mises. This economic system and theory is an outlier among other US colleges and universities, which predominantly are econocentrist, to the context of neo-liberal economics.
econocentrism by aaron_ros June 9, 2016

Chris Economos 

When someone fails at everything they do and tend to often trip and fall on their faces and take off their shirts.
Jimmy did the Chris Economos at a party last night and Maggie dumped him.

Econosism also Econocism

The practice of imposing economic restrictions on some countries and people for defiance and impudence
Developed countries believe econosism also econocism is the right policy to control unruly behaviour and unjustice

econoclast 

n. 1. One who attacks and seeks to overthrow economies.

2. One who destroys faith and trust in sacred economic principles.

(With apologies to the American Heritage Dictionary)
Those who demanded the removal of safeguards provided by common sense, accounting principles, fiduciary obligations and minimal regulation were in fact, econoclasts.

Who needs thieves and extortionists when you have econoclasts?

He was accused of being an econclast, but he was in fact an econopath, i.e. he couldn't help himself.
econoclast by astronav November 23, 2009

Econowonky

An economic 'expert' dispensing an opinion about the economy based on their political philosophy.
That guy's not a true economist...he's just an Econowonky.
Econowonky by Blaster4 February 8, 2009

economonkeism 

The phenomenon where a lot of social media users unite to help dying companies on the stock market by buying and holding the shares as much as possible.
We are currently seeing a good example of economonkeism.
economonkeism by Mefistos February 1, 2021