Economist political contributions from Massachusetts

The Economist–Massachusetts overlap

Occupation ECONOMIST and donor state MA match on $2,599,014, 6,289 contributions, and 94 donors. The occupation hub is $15,061,265, 47,419 contributions, and 1,790 donors. Massachusetts’s dollar share is about 17%; contribution share about 13% (6,289 of 47,419); donor share about 5% (94 of 1,790).

About 17% of the dollars from about 5% of the donors means the Massachusetts-coded Economist receipts are concentrated: fewer people, a larger slice of the labeled money. Ninety-four donors producing 6,289 contributions also means heavy repeat itemization inside the state slice. That is a description of the join, not a ranking of university economics departments.

Ninety-four Massachusetts donors produced 6,289 contributions, about 67 itemized rows per donor in this join, versus about 26 rows per donor nationally (47,419 contributions from 1,790 donors). That repeat rate, plus about 17% of the $15,061,265 from about 5% of donors, is the Massachusetts Economist signature in this table. It is still an aggregate: the page does not show a median gift or name the 94 people.

Economist as an FEC occupation string

ECONOMIST can mean an academic, a Fed or Treasury staffer who listed a home address elsewhere, a consulting economist, or a retiree. The FEC file does not verify employer or degree. One thousand seven hundred ninety donors and $15,061,265 nationwide are the labeled bucket.

Scientist is a separate Massachusetts occupation tie. Do not add the Massachusetts Scientist join to this $2,599,014 and call the sum research giving. Different strings, different packets.

Massachusetts as donor state

Ninety-four Massachusetts donors produced 6,289 contributions totaling $2,599,014. Donor state MA is the address on the record. It does not prove a Cambridge appointment and does not limit gifts to Massachusetts candidates.

The Massachusetts campaign-finance hub includes every occupation coded to MA. This join is only ECONOMIST. Other MA occupation ties in this slice—Finance, Artist, Scientist, Investment Manager—use other labels.

The Massachusetts state hub is not an economist hub. Scientist and Finance MA ties are other filters. The Economist occupation hub without Massachusetts still holds about 83% of the $15,061,265. District of Columbia and Virginia Economist ties are parallel cuts of the same occupation total, not a ranking.

Reading three Economist state ties without ranking them

This packet slice also includes Economist joins for the District of Columbia and Virginia, each with its own state-side dollars, contributions, and donors. Those pages are parallel cuts of the same $15,061,265 occupation total. They are not a league table of influence, and adding all three state totals still leaves other states in the national figure.

Itemized individual contributions only. Unitemized receipts and independent expenditures are omitted. FEC.gov is the source. Occupation labels are filer-entered. Correlation is not causation.

ECONOMIST does not record a Ph.D., employer, or field. Faculty directories and FEC receipts do not substitute for each other. Itemized individual contributions only. Unitemized gifts and independent expenditures are omitted. Recipient office is outside the join. Correlation is not causation.

Three numbers, two fields, one Economist filter

Subtract the Massachusetts dollars on this page from the national Economist occupation total and the difference is the amount still coded Economist in every other state combined. That remainder has no row-by-row breakdown here because those states are other ties. The occupation internal link holds the unlabeled-by-state total; the state internal link holds every occupation with this state code; the occupations index and the ties index place this pair among other joins built the same way.

A unique-donor count is not a person-level audit. The FEC aggregate can merge similar names or split one person who filed under variants. A contribution count can be many small itemized rows. A dollar total can hide that skew. Keeping all three figures on the same page is the point of the join: quoting only the Massachusetts dollars, or only the Economist national total, drops a key.

This relationship is not a forecast and not a ranking of influence. Occupation does not cause contributions, and donor state does not cause recipient geography. Public records, two fields, one intersection. FEC.gov individual contribution aggregates; occupation labels are filer-entered.

Related hubs

Economist donations holds the $15,061,265 national occupation total. Massachusetts campaign finance holds the state’s itemized individual activity across occupations. All occupations and all FEC ties collect other occupation-state pairs from the same two fields.

Questions

How much have Economist donors in Massachusetts given?

FEC itemized individual contributions from donors listing occupation Economist and state Massachusetts total $2,599,014, from 6,289 contributions and 94 donors. Nationwide, Economist-coded receipts are $15,061,265 from 47,419 contributions and 1,790 donors. Massachusetts is about 17% of those dollars.

Why only 94 Massachusetts donors but about 17% of the dollars?

The state side is 94 donors, 6,289 contributions, and $2,599,014, against 1,790 donors and $15,061,265 nationally. A smaller share of people (about 5%) carrying a larger share of dollars (about 17%) means concentration. This page does not name those 94 donors.

Are these university economists in Massachusetts?

The FEC file does not verify employer. Occupation is ECONOMIST and state is MA on the itemized record. The 94 Massachusetts donors used that pair of labels. That is not a faculty directory.

Does this money go to Massachusetts candidates?

Not necessarily. Donor state is Massachusetts. Recipients can be any FEC-filing committee. This page does not allocate the $2,599,014 by office or by in-state versus out-of-state campaigns.