Bill Ayers, former Weatherman terrorist and friend of Obama, writes on his blog: 

On the death penalty, I’m an abolitionist; on education and health care, a universalist; on economic growth, a minimalist, while on economic policy, a socialist; on military power deployed in the service of occupation and conquest, a pacifist; on the possibility of progressive political change, a pessimist of the head and an optimist of the heart.

Good to know. But what’s an economist minimalist? Someone who likes poverty?