The Economist

The only reward is that the winner can then truthfully claim to have written (at least a few words) for The Economist.

Similarly, the economist's simplification of human motivation is often the only way to make a complex problem tractable .

The Economist, if it had a vote, would choose George W. Bush.

Schumpeter: Too much buzz | The Economist THE only area of business that seems to be recession-proof is social media.

Whether the marriage made you happy, or you were right to choose her, is none of the economist's business.

IT HAS become a joke for The Economist to say that a country is at a crossroads, yet for Turkey it happens to be spot on.

In a side room Rick Perry, the governor of Texas, chatted to The Economist as he got ready to make his speech.

One of them, the economist Edward Castronova, calls it "a social-science supercollider" .

There was all sorts of press coverage, all over the world, going right down to "Dr. Strangelove Saves the Earth, " from the Economist.

YOUR correspondent, as regular readers of The Economist will be aware, has never been much of a fan of the Space Shuttle.

The economist asked: "What would I do if I knew that one of several possible models of the world was correct but did not know which one? "

But data from the Economist Intelligence Unit shows that looking at the true urban area none of them even make it into the top ten.

Although Mr Bezos has discussed his strategy in the past with The Economist, the company did not respond to requests for an interview.

For the economist in our party, it was the ultimate puzzle: a man with no desire to increase supply to meet relentlessly rising demand.

Let me instead focus on a less-obvious insight, discovered by the economist Lionel Page and his wife, the psychologist Katie Page.

SOMETHING of a hopeful trajectory was implied in The Economist's report on the Friday coup of 1932.

"Once upon a time, there was an ambitious young man who didn't read The Economist. The End, " read one particularly audacious ad from 2004.

As for The Economist's hip factor, Mr. Micklethwait said it had nothing to do with how the magazine was edited.

But to say that Mandarin will rival English is a "bit of a stretch" , says Manoj Vohra, Asia director at the Economist Intelligence Unit.

Still, the economist is still likely to see the merits of a brain-drain tax on the outflow of human capital.

You know, for as complicated as economy can be, The Economist seems to be a excessive China fanboy.

The concern (posed by the Economist piece) that this proposed ban would be might be "misunderstood abroad, " seems foolish.

The economist behind this year's report is used to hearing people marvel at how much kids cost.

The economist who laments the hardships of the poor, allows himself to grow rich upon the sale of his book.

The Economist is a very good book, but I would like it better if it were plainly and self-reliably stated.

Yu, the economist who worries that China has only a decade or two to avoid trouble, qualifies as a moderate reformer.

From The Economist's office on the eighth floor it feels, for a moment, like an earthquake.

It was an open secret, however, that Keith's dearest occupation was not The Economist.

The Economist's informal R-word index tracks the number of newspaper articles that use the word "recession" in a quarter.

Mr Brown did not invoke the name of James Tobin, the economist who proposed a levy on currency dealings in the 1970s.

Somewhere in the heavens, Arthur Cecil Pigou, the economist who invented the concept of negative externalities, must be smiling.

The Economist recently described how the company leased 600 electric Mini ES to drivers in England, Germany and the United States.

Exor (which owns nearly 5% of The Economist) and News Corporation are cutting in at a time of great uncertainty.

To determine the right discount rate, therefore, the economist must answer at least two ethical questions.

The world economy: Three-way split | The Economist THIS year has turned out to be a surprisingly good one for the world economy.

After signing, Professor Xia, the economist, said he was forced to resign from positions at two research institutes.

Chinese acquisitions: China buys up the world | The Economist IN THEORY, the ownership of a business in a capitalist economy is irrelevant.

Facebook: Sharing it all | The Economist AT FACEBOOK, they like to call it "Zuckerberg's Law" .

As for the philosopher, the scientist, the economist, they to "do smiles" absolutely not spare a glances - I always is thinks like this.

Well, you know how I've been working at the Economist as a proof-reader, right?

DARTMOUTH COLLEGE'S Tuck School of Business takes first place in The Economist's ninth annual ranking of full-time MBA programmes.

As The Economist went to press it was still too soon to say which description was more apt.

Then again, The Economist said the same thing about 2010 , but maybe the magazine was just jumping the gun.

The Economist considers itself the enemy of privilege, pomposity and predictability.

Already, people are prepared to pay to receive newspapers and magazines (including The Economist) on the Kindle.

The CCPOA (which did not reply to The Economist's repeated requests for interviews) returns the hostility.

But as The Economist went to press, they too seemed to be on the verge of striking a deal, just as the derisive Mr Erdogan had predicted.

Recently The Economist recognized this , but I stumbled upon the idea 12 years ago, and that's what I 've been working on .

The economist Gregory Clark, author of "A Farewell to Alms, " calls it the only story of economic development.

Though no agreement had been reached as The Economist went to press, the industry had begun to embrace radical change.

Start reading business publications like The Economist, Businessweek, or the Wall Street Journal.

Until recently many sceptics (including The Economist) doubted that wisps of cloud could be auctioned like this.

As The Economist went to press, three more were to be beheaded in Wajid, and two more had suffered the same fate in a nearby village.

HOW could a schoolboy prank (as The Economist called it) have become such a painful international crisis?

The Economist concluded that the main reason for the long travel times for Chinese people is the traffic jams in cities.

Sidenote: You might think this post a bit odd coming from someone who toils under a limited cloak of personal anonymity for The Economist.

The question, as The Economist has regularly written, was not whether he would stay in power, but how he would do it.

"It's a surprise that they suddenly came out today, " says Chris Phillips, Jordan country specialist at the Economist Intelligence Unit.

'Greedy Until Proven Guilty, ' is the headline of the Economist article articulating a form of this view.

The value for a copy of The Economist is not included, but it has been calculated by the Green Press Initiative at about 11 litres.

APART from The Economist, Britain's news outfits have lined up to oppose News Corporation's bid to take over British Sky Broadcasting.

Buttonwood: Ever hopeful | The Economist INVESTORS nearly always enter a new year with a sense of hope.

A FRENCH website says of our European cover this week: "The Economist does not do half-measures in its judgment of [Silvio] Berlusconi. "

It is to the Radicals that The Economist still likes to think of itself as belonging. The extreme centre is the paper's historical position.

But as The Economist went to press it looked as if the decision would be deferred because of concerns at the Department of Justice.

He was first the economist of the Bank of Commerce and later of the Chase National Bank.

Selfishly, The Economist would like to see a genuine social and economic liberal in the race.

In fact, it has claimed the number one spot for two years running on the Economist Intelligence Unit's ranking of the most liveable cities.

In November and December 2007, The Economist applied to see two TfL reports on the London congestion charge.

As the economist John Kenneth Galbraith once wrote, 'of all the classes, the wealthy are the most noticed and the least studied. '

A recent CNN piece (by a former Mexico correspondent of The Economist, no less) makes some good criticisms of this kind of indexing.

Last week I was in London at "The Big Rethink" conference of The Economist.

'It was never intended as a precise gauge of currency misalignment, ' the Economist said in an article on Friday.

The Economist comments section is long overdue for a "Do Not Recommend" button.

"That is a tremendous challenge, " he said at an event sponsored by the Economist magazine held at the New York Stock Exchange.

1The young president's resignation, the company elected to chair the economist, who has just returned to the company's day-to-day work.

This simplicity was criticised in The Economist's briefing, as though the EMH applied only to these hypothetical cases.

The best advice he could give to other leaders, Lula told The Economist last September, was not to outsource politics.

The economist's commodity price index is broadly unchanging from a year ago.

"An apology is due Barack Obama, " wrote The Economist, which had opposed the $86 billion auto bailout.

To tell us more about the big three bailout now, Gareth Leather joins us, an automotive analyst for the Economist intelligence unit.

When The Economist met him, on a flight from Moscow to Ukraine, Ivan was perplexed.

The Economist's commodity price index is broadly unchanged from a year ago.

Robert Lane Greene is an international correspondent for The Economist, currently covering American politics and foreign policy online.

It beggars belief that the Economist can recommend such a ridiculous policy.

More than 50 questions that The Economist first sent him in April 2001 remain unanswered.

As The Economist went to press, the authorities seemed to be back in charge but the situation was dangerously fluid.

In highlighting the improved conditions in Iraq we do not mean to justify The Economist's support of the invasion of 2003 (see article).

For those who would like a little practical guidance, The Economist has some suggestions for dinner (see menu).

On a quarterly basis prices are now falling in at least half the 20 countries in The Economist's house-price index.

Keynes was no where near the economist Fisher was.

The economist gets up, locks the door, closes the shade, sits down next to the interviewer and says: "What do you want it to equal? "

The economist who studied learning adopted the approach of "what would I do if I were a horse? "

A spokesman for The Economist, Justin Hendrix, was unable to confirm that arrangement as of Sunday night.

The election, a thrilled Mr Daley told The Economist soon afterwards, would help to bring Chicago the prominence it had always hoped for.

The result has been a historic reversal of what the economist Elaina Rose calls the "success" penalty for educated women.

There was no final deal ready as The Economist went to press, but one could well come very soon.

But the fear-mongering of the Economist has no bounds.

The economist likes to enumerate his view points and today was no exception.

However, IFC would hasten to add --as did the Economist-- that challenges remain and now is NOT the time for complacency.

Readers of The Economist's website will soon be able to log in and make comments using their Facebook identity, through Facebook Connect.

There is almost no chance that this edition of The Economist will be allowed on sale at kiosks.

It was the highest valuation since at least the 1880s, according to the economist Robert Shiller.

The Economist once wrote of an ex-member of the firm: "He suffers the lack of self-doubt common in former McKinsey consultants. "

The economist gets up, locks the door, closes the shade, sits down next to the interviewer and says hat do you want it to equal? ?

Although the bloodletting seemed to be subsiding as The Economist went to press, the misery of the refugees needs to be alleviated.

At successive rallies Mr Erdogan has accused The Economist of acting in concert with "a global gang" and taking orders from Israel.

The Economist counts at least 18 books on the crisis that are either in the works or already in the shops.

The economist John Maynard Keynes convincingly argued 70 years ago that thrift was no virtue during a recession.

The nation recognizes it should move in this direction, at least based on China's most recent five year plan, the economist wrote.

A decade later, and some of that original Hamelian gusto has been recaptured by The Economist's highly optimistic report.

Two directors of The Economist Newspaper are also directors of HSBC; they were not approached for this article.

Really, the name of your magazine is The Economist.

Last month, Melbourne topped a list of the world's best cities in which to live, ranked by the Economist Intelligence Unit.

The economist is actually being humble here by admitting the limits of what economic reasoning can say about a given event.

The case for removing him, made among others by The Economist, has not been vindicated.

Follow economics news. The best weekly is The Economist. The best daily is the Wall Street Journal.

Synthesis and poise are one of the methods to establish the new theory for the economist.

Across the Atlantic, the Economist echoed "Chastity before marriage may have its uses after all. "

The Economist has survived, and indeed prospered, by building on the internationalism of its outlook and by selling abroad.

As The Economist went to press, there was talk of a compromise that relies on spending cuts and wildly optimistic accounting.

Daniel Altman, an American academic economist who once worked for The Economist, blithely ignores this advice in his new book.

He is in talks with Pearson, a media group (and part-owner of The Economist), about a takeover of Les Echos , which does make money.

Windows 7, Microsoft's latest version of its operating system, was due to go on sale as The Economist went to press.

Joseph Schumpeter, the economist who coined the term 'creative destruction, ' would be proud.

INFLATION is always and everywhere a monetary phenomenon, said Milton Friedman, the economist who revived monetarism in the 1960s and 1970s.

In an interview with The Economist in May, Ms Otunbayeva grumbled about the difficulty of getting her colleagues to agree on anything.

One of those pictures appeared on the cover of The Economist.

Thankfully, the EU has not decided to censor The Economist.

Roy Jenkins rightly described him as the "epitome of the internal spirit of The Economist" .

The Economist contacted Mr Havelange's office in Rio de Janeiro regarding these matters, but he declined to speak to us.

She identified at least 200 forged signatures, The Economist has learned.

A FEW weeks ago The Economist invited readers who enjoy our Big Mac index to invent other quirky economic indicators.

Ever since, The Economist has been on the side of economic liberty.

Batches of the documents have been seen by The Economist and several other publications.

This controversial cover of The Economist from 1994 portrays "The Trouble with Mergers" by showing an illustration of two camels mating.

Bill Gates once said in an interview that he reads every single page of The Economist every single week.

But while the dust cloud remains in place over Europe's largest airports, "that is all but impossible, " The Economist reported.

And The Economist predicts that China will publish morepatents next year than any other nation.

Among the 18 forecasters surveyed monthly by The Economist, none expects deflation in any big economy next year save Japan.

For most of its existence The Economist has been content with a small circulation.

Global Views also quoted The Economist which described Singapore as a city where everything is carefully measured.

The Economist has done some rudimentary calculations to work out the effects of such changes.

The economist Paul Romer once said to me that "a crisis is a terrible thing to waste. "

One of the festival's most lionised writers was Ali Sethi whose father is The Economist's correspondent in Pakistan.

At least it was mostly peaceful, as The Economist went to press, unlike the street battles seen in late 2008 and last April.

Other experts agree. Britain's leading The Economist magazine is even more critical, calling Hollande's economic prescriptions "dangerous. "

As The Economist put it: "Across the Continent, Bush hatred has been replaced by Obama-mania. "

These people take a businesslike approach to giving that The Economist christened "philanthrocapitalism" in 2006.

"The left just gave up on economics, " says the economist Paul Ormerod, who retains sympathy for the cause.

The methodology for the "global peace index" was devised by the Economist Intelligence Unit, our sister company.

Revolution in the arab world, as told through the graphics that have accompanied The Economist's coverage.

Over the coming weeks, The Economist will profile several economies at the centre of wider global trends.

The book that Roubini ultimately wrote (with the economist Brad Setser) on the emerging market crises, "Bailouts or Bail-Ins? "

The Economist proved no better than anyone else at predicting this turnaround.

Mr. Doanh, the economist, said Vietnam needed much more than just an injection of money at lower interest rates.

The Economist will also be "a lot more active" on Twitter, which will be a "full-time job" , Mr Edwards said.

In his lecture on the current economic situation, the economist used a lot of figures on the PPT to underline the seriousness of the crisis.

If The Economist ever compromised its incredibly high standards, I would cancel the subscription I have had for decades.

But managers at The Economist do not seem very concerned.

Shallow as the article appears, it only shows that the Economist has lost it's edge in investigative reporting.

Real interest rates are negative in two-thirds of the 25 emerging economies tracked by The Economist.

Consumer internet traffic: Data guzzlers | The Economist RELIABLE data about internet traffic is hard to come by.

READERS often assume that The Economist has a dedicated department of skilled wordsmiths who hone its humorous picture captions.

It was not certain as The Economist went to press that Kraft would go ahead with its bid.

Update: The Economist received a letter from Singapore's High commissioner in London about this post on January 21st.

As The Economist noted earlier this month, "If cautious firms pile up more savings, the prospects for recovery are poor. "

In 1978, the Ridley Plan for dealing with the power of the coal miners' union was leaked to The Economist magazine.

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Later he told The Economist that deregulation of Miyagi's coastline should serve as a model for reform nationwide.

As The Economist went to press, they were expected to implement the austerity plan in a second vote.

Some said that Mr. Mao, the economist, should provide evidence of his claims, or face the courts.

It's called a Kuznets curve (in honor of the economist Simon Kuznets, who detected this pattern in trends of income inequality).

Another information asymmetry example is the "Market for Lemons" , a term coined by the economist George Akerlof.

On past occasions The Economist has sometimes joined in with American elections and stated its preference; and it has sometimes opted out.

The Economist claims, "As computing moves online, the sources of power and money will increasingly be enormous 'computing clouds. '"

Time has not permitted any comment in this week's issue of The Economist on the contents of the Report.

Mr Abe was due to lay out his priorities to parliament on September 29th, after The Economist went to press.

Markets: Bubble warning | The Economist Markets are too dependent on unsustainable government stimulus.

As The Economist concludes, "The basic system works; but that is no excuse for ignoring areas where it could be reformed. "

The economist's term for the knowledge and skills that workers acquire through education, training, and experience.

Third, analyze the economist growth mechanism after establishment of the Nobel Prize for Economics.

Mr. Pei, the economist, said Chinese officials, executives and even many intellectuals did not have a nuanced understanding of India.

I have had a print subscription to The Economist for more than five years.

Many hands write The Economist, but it speaks with a collective voice.

Barack Obama edited reports in New York for Business International, a publishing firm that was later bought by The Economist Group.

The Economist interviewed Mr Han in Zaozhuang, at the mid-point of the Beijing-Shanghai high-speed rail line.

The Economist Intelligence Unit, as reported in "The world in figures" section of this edition, envisages growth of a mere 1. 5%.

One engineer who has played a front-line role in helping cool the meltdown of Fukushima's three reactors spoke unwittingly to The Economist.

In 1933, in the depths of the great Depression, the economist John Maynard Keynes wrote an open letter to President Franklin Roosevelt.

Sovereign debt: How will Japan pay for reconstruction? | The Economist Sovereign debt: How will Japan pay for reconstruction?

And although The Economist rarely sees eye to eye with the father of communism , on this Marx was right.

Dependence on China: The indispensable economy? | The Economist The indispensable economy?

As The Economist went to press, there was still some doubt that his resignation would loosen his grip on the party machine.

The Economist has long argued that a flexible yuan is in the interests of both China and its trading partners.

By making some necessarily bold assumptions, The Economist has produced a forecast of where Ireland's debt might stabilise (see table).

HOUSING markets continue to strengthen, as The Economist's latest survey of global house prices shows.

So The Economist asked the Pew Research Center to trawl through its Global Attitudes database for this special report.

The Economist 's requests for comment have gone unanswered. No public statement suggests the terms have been renegotiated since 2005.

The Economist is among those to have said that Chinese academia is marked by fraud and poor academic ethics.

Many, like Mr. Chidambaram and The Economist magazine, have suggested that India could soon grow at a faster pace than China.

As The Economist went to press, only the basic elements of a possible backstop for Greece had emerged.

America's economy: Time for a double dip? | The Economist America's economy Time for a double dip?

About 50, none of them from The Economist, were invited to cover the torch parade in Lhasa, but were closely watched.

College tuition has outpaced Americans' ability to pay it, The Economist reported earlier this month.

As The Economist went to press, the UN Security Council was at last discussing this but Colonel Qaddafi was advancing towards Benghazi.

IT IS nearly 25 years since The Economist cooked up the Big Mac index.

THE latest print issue of The Economist features a comprehensive briefing on Canada's oil-producing tar sands.

This week The Economist launches a quarterly review which will highlight a selection of new business books.

Henry Kaufman, the economist and Wall Street elder statesman, gives the lie to the notion that no one saw the financial crisis coming.

In Mr Li's honour, The Economist has created a "Keqiang index" for China's economy, combining his three preferred indicators (see chart).

"Even electing 50% of the Lords would completely ruin it, " argues Lord Lipsey, a Labour peer who once worked at The Economist.

Perfect competition is defined by the economist as a technical term .

Mining: The wacky world of gold | The Economist STRIKING gold is generally considered a slice of good luck.

As 2009 drew to a close, the Economist observed that Berlusconi was besieged from all sides and had reached a "crisis point. "

As his son, also called Fred Kimball, explained to The Economist, the pricing for signatures today is based purely on market conditions.

Were dire warnings voiced by those omniscient organs, the " Financial Times " and the " Economist" ? Not so you'd notice .

A few weeks after Mrs McKamey was sacked she and her husband, Randy, spoke to The Economist in their small farmhouse.

Your letter obliges me to disinter the influential research of the economist Joel Waldfogel on the "deadweight loss of Christmas" .

this week's issue of The Economist explains that mischief, not madness, often underlies Muslim anger.

TWO of the five most-commented-on articles on The Economist's website last week were about east European history.

A more modern (or just lazier) outfit these days, The Economist is giving "crowdsourcing" a try.

I read a very interesting article in the latest version of the Economist, discussing the lastest changes to marriage.

France and the euro: Dancing with danger | The Economist France and the euro Dancing with danger Market jitters over France look overdone.

Back in 1984 The Economist conducted an unusual survey for its Christmas issue.

J. M. Ledgard is east Africa correspondent of The Economist and a novelist.

The Economist has previously argued that the capital surcharge on the largest banks is inadequate.

It also has profitable collaborations publishing books on behalf of The Economist and the New Scientist.

Not surprisingly, as The Economist went to press the unions were holding out for even more.

The economist Justin Wolfers wrote a provocative post last month arguing that children are "inferior goods. "

Among its competitors, however, The Economist is hardly alone in losing customers at the newsstand.

Demographics: Growing tiger | The Economist THE demographics of Asia's large countries are sometimes difficult to wrap one's head around.

According to a theory associated with the economist David Friedman, medieval Icelandic society had some features of anarcho-capitalism.

Two of them agreed to be interviewed by The Economist, but only after being driven to an inconspicuous spot outside the village.

A second infamous motivation for giving was advanced by the economist James Andreoni: the "warm glow" .

The Economist disapproved: if limited liability was desirable, we said, market forces would provide it.

For the economist, residential shifts provide a means for studying the housing and land markets.

China should tighten its monetary policy gradually to prevent possible stagflation, cited by the economist Li Yining.

The economist, Jim O'Neill, comes from Goldman Sachs - itself a firm under attack from regulators and politicians.

The economic situation in Yemen after months of unrest is, well, "shit" -- according to a Yemeni man quoted in the Economist.

As The Economist went to press Waukesha was to become the first city beyond the basin to apply for lake water.

The left-hand chart shows The Economist's ranking of slumps in developed and emerging economies over the past century.

Articles in The Economist are not signed, but they are not all the work of the editor alone.

China's rampant economy: Central heating | The Economist Central heating Is China's economy growing too fast?

Corporate leaders viewed the economist's recommendations with mistrust.

Seven Notes: market fundamentalism of the Economist, Economic Man is bound to change!

The economist J. K. Galbraith asserted that fraud rose in a bull market and shrank in a slump.

The economist Richard Layard has written an interesting book, Happiness: Lessons from a New Science.

The increasing army of the unemployed has attracted the attention of the economist.

May figures were to be released after The Economist went to press.