Way to express feelings — distressed economist has more than one (8)
I believe the answer is:
emoticon
'way to express feelings' is the definition.
(symbol expressing one's emotions)
'distressed economist has more than one' is the wordplay.
I cannot really understand how this works, but
'more' could be 'mo' (I've seen this in other clues) and 'mo' is present in the answer.
'one' could be 'o' (I've seen this in other clues) and 'o' is located in the answer.
This may be the basis of the clue (or it may be nonsense).
(Other definitions for emoticon that I've seen before include "smiley, perhaps?" , "Representation of a facial expression in electronic messages" , "Representation of facial expression in e-messages" , "Textual symbol" , "Computer image showing feeling" .)