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What went wrong with The Economist?

12 January 2017

10:11 AM

12 January 2017

10:11 AM

the-economistI first encountered The Economist magazine as an undergraduate at the London School of Economics in the early 1960s. Richard Lipsey and Lord Robbins recommended it to me. It opened my eyes and I loved it.

It tried to depict the world according to economic principles in a dry scholarly way. Sometimes the ink came off on yer hand.

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