The Economist!

[Desmond Hawkins]

I am a huge fan of this magazine. I mostly just read it for free online, and I am happy every Thursday when I go to the site and a new version is released. It consistently covers the issues of most interest to me, and it does a good job of it. Although I often find it a bit corny in its revealed belief that markets can solve almost any problem, I also respect that it can be very honest and balanced about issues and admit when evidence is to the contrary. Also, it was one of the first mainstream centrist publications to change its tack and criticize the Iraq War and to also admit the dangers of climate change and suggest possible solutions.

While I don't agree with everything in it and believe it has an air of naivete about it, I respect its classical liberal perspective on the world.

SIR, I love your publication!

Well folks, what is your opinion on The Economist?

 

[Mulholland]

I agree the economist is a classy rag. I have to admit that some articles are beyond my grasp or at least my attention span. My favorite thing about the economist though is that is a very informative sedative.

 

[Aramazd]

No Opinion, I don't read it.

 

[sonorakitch]

I have subscribed to the Economist since 1996. Every issue contains a weeks worth of intensive analysis and reading and I find it to be the best thing to come out of the UK since ketchup.

I did cancel the newspaper (as they like to be called) for a while following Hurricane Katrina. I despised their reporting on this disaster, but shortly found life to difficult to live without the weekly gracing of its pages upon my door.

~Chris

 

[Masquerouge]

It's one of the best out there. And I completely agree about the "corny belief that markets can solve anything", but hey, the name is the Economist

 

[Mise]

It's a great read. I don't agree with it on everything, obviously, but it's one of the most enjoyable reads out there.

 

[Desmond Hawkins]

Ahh, a perfect example of the magazine catering to my personal interests. They must be spying on me.

 

[Godwynn]

The economist keeps me from being bored all day.

 

[Ansar]

My teacher is crazy about it. She thinks it is the best and we should all read it.

I've never read it, pretty much because I don't have a subscription to it. It's free?! Cool!

 

[mrt144]

I love the Economist as well. It's almost always more interesting than any other magazine published, and better written to boot.

 

[Fifty]

Yes, its easily the best news magazine I've read.

They have EXCELLENT writers, nice sense of humor, etc. etc.

Plus the help wanted ads are amusing.

 

[GinandTonic]

It's one of the best out there. And I completely agree about the "corny belief that markets can solve anything", but hey, the name is the Economist

Complete agreement with the proviso I'm not a great fan of it's page-layout.

 

[Whomp]

I also read it. The mag gives me perspective that I can't get from US centric magazines. I have found they've become a bit more opinionated over the last 5 years or so but what mag isn't?

 

[downtown]

I haven't purchased a suscription to it, because its expensive. I do sometimes read it online, and I used to go read in at my university library a lot.

Its one of my favorite news mags, and I've cited several of its pieces on Latin America in papers I've done. Its great stuff.

 

[Integral]

Excellent magazine. The 'executive focus' want ads are particularly good.

Let's see...governor of the Bank of Canada, senior economist for the World Bank, professorships at the India School of Business and University of Sydney, Austrailia...I had no idea these kinds of jobs were advertised on the open market...

Integral

 

[Masquerouge]

I also read it. The mag gives me perspective that I can't get from US centric magazines.

That's why I read the NYT, actually

 

[Azale]

That's why I read the NYT, actually

The NYT for an American perspective? Eww, try that and some Wall Street Journal for balance

I love the Economist, my speech teacher had the Economist all over the classroom and I always used it for speeches.

 

[The Yankee]

I love it. Gives a more outsider view on events in business and in the news/politics, since they go hand in hand. Became a subscriber a few months ago to add to my expanding current events library.

It's also wonderful that they'll have stories from places that normally go unnoticed by other major publications.

 

[Lambert Simnel]

I really ought to just dislike it, but, truth be told, I loathe it. Amateur hour journalism, with lots of snide little opinions, stabs in the dark, and comments which sound as if they mean much more than they do. What particularly winds me up is the lack of attribution - the writers of each story, traditionally in The Economist, hide behind the paper's byline, and don't put their own name to the story. Historically at least, this is largely because they employ opinionated young turks whom nobody would take seriously otherwise, and who don't have the guts or credibility to stand behind some of their stories.

Online works for it, on one level, in that it's rather well reasoned for a blog. On the other hand, at least even with blogs, you know who is talking to you.

 

[The Yankee]

Ahh, a perfect example of the magazine catering to my personal interests. They must be spying on me.

You must have enjoyed a recent article they put out about the Second Avenue Subway here in New York.

And they are spying on you. Because they can.