The Economist vs. BusinessWeek

[Dida]

Which is the better magazine for general overview of the business world and global economy? What are some relative strength and merits of each? I know the Economist is exceedingly expensive, at $98 per year. The only other periodic publication that I am familiar with that is more expensive than the Economist would the University of Chicago Law Review, which nobody ever reads.

 

[Arwon]

I'm a big fan of the Economist despite its strong classical liberal bent, because its reporting is interesting and higher quality than other newspapers or magazines on world affairs and politics. Unfortunately, since I skip the finance and business sections, I probably can't help you much on that front.

 

[woody60707]

I'm a big fan of the Economist despite its strong classical liberal bent, because its reporting is interesting and higher quality than other newspapers or magazines on world affairs and politics. Unfortunately, since I skip the finance and business sections, I probably can't help you much on that front.

LMAO. This girl I know was just complaining that the Economist is conservative. And no information in it should be trusted. (We were talking about walfare, and i cited the economist)

unless we are mixing up what liberal and conservative mean again

 

[Arwon]

Yes, you are mixing up what liberal means. Very much so. Bloody American binary spectrum will be the death of us.

Handy rule of thumb: If someone isn't from America, when they say "liberal" they mean a moderate sort of right-wing viewpoint, with a libertarian bent, although usually pretty liberal on social issues.

(To complicate things, in Australia our Liberal Party is very conservative and the more right-wing of the two major parties.)

What I mean is that the Economist has its viewpoint, and it's a fairly knee-jerk classical liberal one, but that doesn't get in the way of its reporting, as long as you take some of its responses on things like development issues with a grain of salt.

 

[ybbor]

Wall Street journal is another right-leaning, very good economics periodical.

 

[Princeps]

I'm a big fan of the Economist despite its strong classical liberal bent,

I've read it once -- I say it is more of a corporate libertarian -- not classical liberal as in Adam Smith-like.

 

[Merkinball]

Pick up the recent copy of the Economist, tell me it's not liberal...

 

[Elrohir]

The Economist isn't too bad. In American terms, it's sort of libertarian with a serious free market bent.

 

[The Yankee]

I rather like The Economist. Once I pay off a few things on the card, I'll probably look into BusinessWeek also, after I check it out.

 

[Phlegmak]

I have a solution to this liberal/conservative binary labeling. They're both meaningless. Anyone who tries to tell you something is liberal or conservative, is wrong.

 

[Arwon]

Or, people could just learn to understand what we mean by the terms. They're far from meaningless when applied accurately, it's just that they've been hammered into a bizzare shape by American usage which demands everything fit into two categories and two categories alone.