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It is not only The Economist's name that people find baffling. Here are some other common questions.
First, why does it call itself a newspaper? Even when The Economist incorporated the Bankers' Gazette and Railway Monitor from 1845 to 1932, it also described itself as "a political, literary and general newspaper".
It still does so because, in addition to offering analysis and opinion, it tries in each issue to cover the main events—business and political—of the week. It goes to press on Thursdays and, printed simultaneously in six countries, is available in most of the world's main cities the following day or soon after.
Readers everywhere get the same editorial matter. The advertisements differ. The running order of the sections, and sometimes the cover, also differ. But the words are the same, except that each week readers in Britain get a few extra pages devoted to British news.
Why is it anonymous? Many hands write The Economist, but it speaks with a collective voice. Leaders are discussed, often disputed, each week in meetings that are open to all members of the editorial staff. Journalists often co-operate on articles. And some articles are heavily edited. The main reason for anonymity, however, is a belief that what is written is more important than who writes it. As Geoffrey Crowther, editor from 1938 to 1956, put it, anonymity keeps the editor "not the master but the servant of something far greater than himself. You can call that ancestor-worship if you wish, but it gives to the paper an astonishing momentum of thought and principle."
Who owns The Economist? Since 1928, half the shares have been owned by the Financial Times, a subsidiary of Pearson, the other half by a group of independent shareholders, including many members of the staff. The editor's independence is guaranteed by the existence of a board of trustees, which formally appoints him and without whose permission he cannot be removed.
What, besides free trade and free markets, does The Economist believe in? "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." That is as true today as when Crowther said it in 1955. The Economist considers itself the enemy of privilege, pomposity and predictability. It has backed conservatives such as Ronald Reagan and Margaret Thatcher. It has supported the Americans in Vietnam. But it has also endorsed Harold Wilson and Bill Clinton, and espoused a variety of liberal causes: opposing capital punishment from its earliest days, while favouring penal reform and decolonisation, as well as—more recently—gun control and gay marriage.
Lastly, The Economist believes in plain language. Walter Bagehot, our most famous 19th-century editor, tried "to be conversational, to put things in the most direct and picturesque manner, as people would talk to each other in common speech, to remember and use expressive colloquialisms". That remains the style of the paper today.
Established in 1843 to campaign on one of the great political issues of the day, The Economist remains, in the second half of its second century, true to the principles of its founder. James Wilson, a hat maker from
the small Scottish town of Hawick, believed in free trade, internationalism and minimum interference by government, especially in the affairs of the market. Though the protectionist Corn Laws which inspired Wilson to start The Economist were repealed in 1846, the newspaper has lived on, never abandoning its commitment to the classical 19th-century Liberal ideas of its founder.
The Corn Laws, which by taxing and restricting imports of corn made bread expensive and starvation common, were bad for Britain. Free trade, in Wilson's view, was good for everyone. In his prospectus for The Economist, he wrote: "If we look abroad, we see within the range of our commercial intercourse whole islands and continents, on which the light of civilisation has scarce yet dawned; and we seriously believe that free trade, free intercourse, will do more than any other visible agent to extend civilisation and morality throughout the world - yes, to extinguish slavery itself."
Wilson's outlook was, therefore, moral, even civilising, but not moralistic. He believed "that reason is given to us to sit in judgment over the dictates of our feelings." Reason convinced him in particular that Adam Smith was right, that through its invisible hand the market benefited profit-seeking individuals (of whom he was one) and society alike. He was himself a manufacturer and wanted especially to influence "men of business". Accordingly, he insisted that all the arguments and propositions put forward in his paper should be subjected to the test of facts. That was why it was called The Economist.
Wilson was not The Economist's greatest editor in terms of intellect. That title probably goes to his son-in-law, Walter Bagehot (pronounced Bajut), who was the paper's third editor, from 1861 to 1877. Bagehot was a banker, but he is best remembered for his political writing and notably for his articles on the British constitution. The monarch, he argued, was head of the "dignified" parts of the constitution, those that "excite and preserve the reverence of the population"; the prime minister was head of the "efficient" parts, "those by which it, in fact, works and rules." The distinction is often drawn, even today.
It was Bagehot who broadened the range of the paper into politics. He was also responsible for greatly strengthening the interest in America that The Economist has always shown. Under the editorship of Bagehot, who argued that "The object of The Economist is to throw white light on the subjects within its range", the paper's influence grew. One British foreign secretary, Lord Granville, said that whenever he felt uncertain, he liked to wait to see what the next issue of The Economist had to say. A later admirer of Bagehot's was Woodrow Wilson, president of the United States from 1913 to 1921.
The paper, however, had to wait nearly half a century before getting another remarkable editor. He came in 1922, in the shape of Walter Layton, whose achievement, in the words of The Economist's historian, Ruth Dudley Edwards*, was to have the paper "read widely in the corridors of power abroad as well as at home", even if critics said it was "slightly on the dull side of solid". That was certainly not a criticism that could be levelled at his successor, Geoffrey Crowther, who was probably The Economist's greatest editor since Bagehot. His contribution was to develop and improve the coverage of foreign affairs, especially American ones, and of business. Its authoritativeness had never been higher.
From the earliest days, The Economist had looked abroad, both for subjects to write about and for circulation. Even in the 1840s, it had readers in Europe and the United States. By 1938, half its sales were abroad although, thanks to world war, not for long. Crowther's great innovation was to start a section
devoted to American affairs, which he did just after the Japanese attack on Pearl Harbour in December 1941. "American Survey" (renamed "United States" in 1997) was aimed not at Americans but at British readers who, Crowther believed, needed to know more about their new allies. In time, however, it earned a following in the United States that became the base for the great rise in American circulation that began in the 1970s.
For most of its existence The Economist has been content with a small circulation. When Bagehot gave up as editor, it stood at 3,700, and by 1920 had climbed to only 6,000. After the second world war, it rose rapidly, but from a base of barely 18,000, and when Crowther left it stood at only 55,000, not reaching 100,000 until 1970. Today circulation is over 1m, more than four-fifths of it outside Britain. The American circulation accounts for over half of the total.
A recent editor, Rupert Pennant-Rea, once described The Economist as “a Friday viewspaper, where the readers, with higher than average incomes, better than average minds but with less than average time, can test their opinions against ours. We try to tell the world about the world, to persuade the expert and reach the amateur, with an injection of opinion and argument.” With readers such as these, and aims such as these, The Economist was bound to find it progressively harder to increase its circulation in Britain. That became especially true in the 1960s and 1970s, when British daily papers started to carry more of the interpretive, argumentative and analytical articles that had traditionally been the preserve of the weeklies. The Economist has survived, and indeed prospered, by building on the internationalism of its outlook and by selling abroad.
In this it has been helped enormously by its coverage of business and economic affairs. Wilson believed that even statistics, so far from being dull, could “afford the deepest and often the most exciting interest.” To this day, readers such as Helmut Schmidt, chancellor of West Germany from 1974 to 1982, agree. But few readers buy The Economist for one thing alone, and in recent years the paper has added sections devoted to Europe, Asia, Latin America, international issues, and science and technology. It has also expanded coverage of books and arts and introduced a new column on financial markets, Buttonwood.
Articles in The Economist are not signed, but they are not all the work of the editor alone. Initially, the paper was written largely in London, with reports from merchants abroad. Over the years, these gave way to stringers who sent their stories by sea or air mail, and then by telex and cable. Nowadays, in addition to a worldwide network of stringers, the paper has about 20 staff correspondents abroad. Contributors have ranged from Kim Philby, who spied for the Soviet Union, to H.H. Asquith, the paper's chief leader writer before he became Britain's prime minister, Garret FitzGerald, who became Ireland's, and Luigi Einaudi, president of Italy from 1948 to 1955. Even the most illustrious of its staff, however, write anonymously: only surveys, the longish supplements published about 20 times a year on various issues or countries, are signed. In May 2001, a redesign introduced more navigational information for readers and full colour on all editorial pages.
维基百科（中文）：
《经济学人》（The Economist）是一份由伦敦经济学人报纸有限公司出版的杂志，在全球发行。
《经济学人》主要关注政治和商业方面的新闻，但是每期也有一两篇针对科技和艺术的报导，以及一些书评。除了常规的新闻之外，每两周《经济学人》还会就一个特定地区或领域进行深入报道。
风格：
《经济学人》的文章一般没有署名，而且往往带有鲜明的立场。杂志的写作风格十分有特色，注重于如何在最小的篇幅内告诉读者最多的信息。在杂志创刊之处，“经济主义”（economism）意思是经济保守主义，但是今天该杂志无论是在经济还是政治上的立场都是倾自由主义的，反对政府在经济和政治方面过度的介入。不过当然不同的作者立场也会有所不同。《经济学人》的文章也以妙语闻名，几乎每一篇的口吻都带嘲讽与幽默。一些人甚至说，只要作者知道如何开玩笑，无论其政治立场，他的文章都可以在《经济学人》上发表。
杂志最早于1843年9月由詹姆士·威尔逊创办，创办的目的是“参与一场推动前进的智慧与阻碍我们进步的胆怯无知之间的较量”，这句话被印在每一期《经济学人》杂志的目录页上。一般人把《经济学人》看作是一份杂志，因为它每周出刊一次，而且采用杂志专用的光面纸印刷。但是《经济学人》认为自己是一份报纸，因为它每一期除了提供分析与意见外，还试图报导整周发生的所有重要政经新闻。
营运：
《经济学人》的发行量大约是100万份，大约一半的读者群在北美，20%在欧洲大陆，15%在英国，10%在亚洲。《经济学人》有意识地将自己看作是一份国际性杂志，因此报道不仅仅局限于或偏重于英国或欧洲，因此其80%以上的读者是在英国以外地区。
《经济学人》的发行人经济学人报纸有限公司是经济学人集团的全资子公司，而经济学人集团则是一家私人企业，一半的股份由私人股东控股，另一半则由《金融时报》拥有。在2002年，经济学人集团的营业额达到2.27亿英镑，赢利1500万英镑。其收入大约一半来自读者订阅，另一半则是广告收入。
贡献：
《经济学人》又以发明巨无霸指数（Big Mac Index）而闻名，他们通过比较麦当劳在各国的快餐店销售巨无霸的价格来比较国与国之间的购买力平价。这个指数不仅有趣，而且被证明是十分准确的计算购买力平价的方法。2006年5月，《经济学人》纪念巨无霸指数创立20年时批评，美国政客不时滥用指数，籍此说明中国人民币汇价偏低，但该指数只在说明长期汇率走势，而没有触及现有市场的均衡点，指数过往的预测虽然颇准确，但它亦忽视了税项及各地市场的环境，只能作为一项非严谨的经济资料参考。
nEo老大的介绍：
《经济学人》—“在文章中提出的任何争论和主张必须要经得起事实的考验”
The Economist字体和鲜红的底色,秉承了刊物创始人James Wilson一贯倡导的朴实无华的作风
1843年创刊于英国。是一份包含新闻、政治经济观点和深度分析的周刊。该杂志所有的文章都不署名，皆由集体创作。
《经济学人》在20世纪20年代发行量仅有3700份，直到1970还未能突破10万大关。如今，杂志分别在7个国家印刷，其发行量已超过70万，其中有4/5的发行是在英国本土以外，单独在美国的发行量占总
量的1/3。
一个多世纪以来《经济学人》始终恪守创始人James Wilson的办刊思想：“在文章中提出的任何争论和主张必须要经得起事实的考验”。
《经济学人》读者定位为高收入、富有独立见解和批判精神的社会精英，与此相适应，文章始终保持了一种独特的格调:不拘一格、叙述朴实、用词准确和忠于事实。
“经济学人”是什么？
这个问题常常引起一些误解。或者说大家看到这个杂志名，就会自然的有一些先入为主的观念。这里有两个问题我想给大家沟通一下。
一这到底是一本什么样的杂志。
首先，这是一本国际性的杂志。据我所知，许多重量级人物在看它。
其次，它是一本有趣的杂志。很多人一听到经济学这几个字就会退避三舍。其实，读读你就会发现，除了一些我们不熟悉的题材外，其中的大多数文章写得机智，幽默，有力度。
二我适不适合看它？。答案是当然适合。别的我不说了，单说许多教高级口译和高级阅读的老师的推荐。这上面的文章文笔犀利而不乏幽默，是阅读的很好的材料。恐怕其简捷，朴素的风格是别的任何一家英文主流所不能比拟的。只要你有4，000到20，000词汇，读起来都不会有太多的不适应感。
经济学人简介
经济学人于1843年在伦敦建刊，以独立和全球化的视角着称。说它是杂志，其实它是以报纸的身份注册的。经济学家每周四晚上在世界六个地方同步印刷，同时于当天晚些时候在网上更新最新一期的内容。经济学家是一本完全国际化期刊，其中80％的发行量来自英国之外。
自建刊以来，经济学家一直秉承其创建者James Wilson的办刊原则。在创刊计划书中James Wilson写到：“我们真诚的相信，自由贸易和自由交往在全世界传播文明和道德的作用是其他任何现有的媒介无法比拟的” 。但杂志的第三任主编Walter Bagehot（1861－77）才是使经济学家发扬光大的人。他使杂志的触角向政治问题延伸。现在，经济学家的文章不仅涉及时势，商业，金融和经济，还涉及到科学，技术和艺术。无论主题是什么，经济学家的独立，坦率，简练和尊重事实的品质任使其与众不同。
客观公正是经济学家杂志的的生命所在。公司的构成禁止任何组织或个人获得杂志半数以上的持股权。经济学家的文章都为匿名写作，就象它的主编们认为的那样：写出了什么东东，比出自谁的手笔更重要。
以上内容转自互联网。
我个人因考研接触《经济学人》，自6月至今阅读了几百篇文章，对她算是有了一个整体印象。
《经济学人》用一个字来概括，就是“牛”，用两个字来概括就是“牛B”。非常非常非常棒的杂志！！！
古语有言：“看一本《经济学人》胜过北师大读书四年。”
大英百科全书线上中文版：
亦譯《經濟學家》。
1843年創刊的英國雜誌，以卓越的商業和經濟文章出名。該刊國際信譽卓著，銷路甚廣。它專門針對商人與投資者的需要，著重於客觀報導英國工商界情況以及世界各國和各地區的商業行情。該刊的「美國概況」專欄從英國觀點展示美國生活。
安替老师的新新闻人自学手册：
新新闻人自学手册（3）：可访问的优秀英文信息源展示
首先明白告诉大家，当2001年7月1日我进入新闻界的时候，我还是一个只会写网文的专业上的白痴。网文和新闻的差别是如此之大，以至于转型的人要脱一层皮。中国潜在的新新闻人全部“生活”在网上，但你们必须明白，要成为一个新新闻人，你要重头开始学。
由于在中国没有任何新闻教材（有的都是垃圾，差别只是大垃圾和小垃圾而已），你必须把国际上最好的新闻、分析、评论网站作为自己的教材，直接学习。这个时候，英文就成为最大的障碍。上次我介绍的《新闻英语分类词典》和金山词霸（最好是中日英版）就成为最好的工具。如果偶尔需要上其他欧洲语言站点，请借助多国语言翻译站点https://www.doczj.com/doc/e71074223.html,，它可以把法语、意大利语、德语、西班牙语等简单翻译成英语。
1、首先推荐的是英国的《经济学家》https://www.doczj.com/doc/e71074223.html,，这应该算世界最牛B的政经分析杂志了，所有的文章都不署名，集体创作。除了部分杂志内容之外，它还开了“The Global Agenda”，分析最新的国际热点时事。它是如此出色，以至于所有的中国大的政经、财经、商业、时事杂志和报纸都拿它做刊例。
我学的时候很简单，一开始是每天一个字一个字地翻译它的文章，这样就能把它的那种冷静、稳重的风格自然地部分转移到我的笔中。我花了5个月的时间才结束了这个阶段。这一招很好，很多出色的年轻新闻人（如《经济观察报》的那些才子们）都是靠学习翻译优秀英文杂志开始自己的风格的。你不要担心你会被它的风格控制，你只是一个白痴，你担心什么？担心被最出色的评论家们影响，呵呵，算了吧。
可惜的是，它的好些文章一过期就要花59美圆每年去买，文章编号被加密，在我们普遍没有外币信用卡的状况下，这等于向我们关门。不过，还好我是计算机出生，花四个小时破解出来了全部密码表，贴在我的“锐思评论”论坛中，大家有兴趣可以去看，最好不要转载。我知道我这样做不道德，但是相信《经济学家》的朋友能理解我们的处境。
dgrkl注：安替老师接下来推荐的是美联社、BBC、纽约时报。有兴趣的大家自己去Google，在这就不方便写地址了。
Wikipedia:
The Economist is a weekly news and international affairs publication of The Economist Newspaper Ltd edited in London, UK. It has been in continuous publication since September 1843. As of 2006, its average circulation topped one million copies a week, about half of which are sold in North America.
According to its contents page, its goal is to "take part in a severe contest between intelligence, which presses forward, and an unworthy, timid ignorance obstructing our progress." Subjects covered include international news, economics, politics, business, finance, science and technology and the arts. The publication is targeted at the high-end "prestige" segment of the market and counts among its audience influential business and government decision-makers.
It takes a strongly argued editorial stance on many issues, especially its support for free trade and fiscal conservatism; it thus practises advocacy journalism.
The Economist calls itself a newspaper. This reflects its legal status under long-standing company registration laws in its home territory, England. Unlike most newspapers it is printed in magazine form on glossy paper, like a newsmagazine.
The Economist belongs to The Economist Group. The publication interests of the group include the CFO brand family as well as European Voice and Roll Call (known as "the Newspaper of Capitol Hill"). Another part of the group is The Economist Intelligence Unit (EIU) , a research and advisory company providing country, industry and management analysis worldwide.
Features:
The Economist's primary focus is world news, politics and business, but it also runs regular sections on science and technology as well as books and the arts. Every two weeks, the newspaper includes, as an additional section, an in-depth survey of a particular business issue, business sector or geographical region. Every three months, The Economist publishes a quarterly technology survey.
Articles often take a definite editorial stance and almost never carry a byline. This means that no specific person or persons can be named as the author. Not even the name of the editor (from 2006, John Micklethwait) is printed in the issue. It is a longstanding tradition that an editor's only signed article during his tenure is written on the occasion of his departure from the position. The author of a piece is named in certain circumstances: when notable persons are invited to contribute opinion pieces; when Economist writers compile surveys; and to highlight a potential conflict of interest over a book review. The names of Economist editors and correspondents can be located, however, via the staff pages of the website.
The newspaper has a trademark tight writing style that is famous for putting a maximum amount of information into a minimum of column inches. The one feature most articles have in common is the concluding witticism. Some have joked that as long as the writers can deliver that, their political or other opinions do not matter. Since 1995, The Economist has published one obituary every week, of a famous (or infamous) person from any field of endeavour.
The Economist is famous for its Big Mac index, which uses the price of a Big Mac hamburger sold by McDonald's in different countries as an informal measure of purchasing power parity between two currencies. It has turned out to be a whimsical but surprisingly accurate index for comparison. In January 2004, this index was joined by a Starbucks "tall latte index".
The newspaper is also a co-sponsor of the Copenhagen Consensus.
Each of the opinion columns in the newspaper is devoted to a particular area of interest. The names of these columns reflect the topic they concentrate on:
1.Bagehot (Britain) - named for Walter Bagehot, nineteenth century British constitutional expert and early editor of The Economist.
2.Charlemagne (Europe) - named for Charlemagne, founder of the Frankish Empire.
Lexington (United States) - named for Lexington, Massachusetts, the site of the beginning of the American War of Independence.
3.Buttonwood (finance) - named for the buttonwood tree where early Wall Street traders gathered. This is an online column.
Two other regular columns are:
1.Face Value: about prominent people in the business world
2.Economic Focus: a general economics column frequently based on academic research
The magazine goes to press on Thursdays, is available online from Thursday evening GMT, and is available on newsstands in many countries the next day. It is printed in seven sites around the world.
The Economist newspaper sponsors yearly "Innovation Awards", in the categories of bioscience, computing and communications, energy and the environment, social and economic innovation, business-process innovation, consumer products, and a special “no boundaries” category.
The Economist also produces the annual The World in [Year] publication.
History:
The August 5, 1843 prospectus for the newspaper, enumerated thirteen areas of coverage that its editors wanted the newspaper to focus on:
1.Original leading articles, in which free-trade principles will be most rigidly applied to all the important questions of the day.
2.Articles relating to some practical, commercial, agricultural, or foreign topic of passing interest, such as foreign treaties.
3.An article on the elementary principles of political economy, applied to practical experience, covering the laws related to prices, wages, rent, exchange, revenue, and taxes.
4.Parliamentary reports, with particular focus on commerce, agriculture, and free trade.
5.Reports and accounts of popular movements advocating free trade.
6.General news from the Court, the Metrpolis, the Provinces, Scotland, and Ireland.
https://www.doczj.com/doc/e71074223.html,mercial topics such as changes in fiscal regulations, the state and prospects of the markets, imports and exports, foreign news, the state of the manufacturing districts, notices of important new mechanical improvements, shipping news, the money market, and the progress of railways and public companies.
8.Agricultural topics, including the application of geology and chemistry; notices of new and improved implements, state of crops, markets, prices, foreign markets and prices converted into English money; from time to time, in some detail, the plans pursued in Belgium, Switzerland, and other well-cultivated countries.
9.Colonial and foreign topics, including trade, produce, political and fiscal changes, and other matters, including exposés on the evils of restriction and protection, and the advantages of free intercourse and trade.
https://www.doczj.com/doc/e71074223.html,w reports, confined chiefly to areas important to commerce, manufacturing, and agriculture.
11.Books, confined chiefly, but not so exclusively, to commerce, manufacturing, and agriculture, and including all treatises on political economy, finance, or taxation.
12.A commercial gazette, with prices and statistics of the week.
13.Correspondence and inquiries from the newspaper's readers.
In 1845 during Railway Mania, The Economist changed its name to The Economist, Weekly Commercial Times, Bankers' Gazette, and Railway Monitor. A Political, Literary and General Newspaper.
Editors
The editors of the Economist have been:
James Wilson 1843—1857 (Herbert Spencer was sub-editor from 1848 to 1853)
Richard Hold Hutton 1857—1861
Walter Bagehot, 1861—1877. He was Wilson's son-in-law
Daniel Conner Lathbury, 1877—1881
R.H.I Palgrave, 1877—1883
Edward Johnstone, 1883—1907
F.W. Hirst, 1907—1916
Hartley Withers, 1916—1921
Sir Walter T. Layton, 1922—1938
Geoffrey Crowther, 1938—1956
Donald Tyerman, 1956—1965
Alistair Burnet, 1965—1974
Andrew Knight, 1974—1986
Rupert Pennant-Rea, 1986—1993
Bill Emmott, 1993—2006
John Micklethwait, 2006—present
Opinions
Main article: The Economist editorial stance
When the newspaper was founded, the term "economism" denoted what would today be termed fiscal conservatism in the United States, or economic liberalism in the rest of the world (and historically in the United States as well). The Economist generally supports free markets, and opposes socialism. It is in favour of globalisation. Economic liberalism is generally associated with the right, but is now favoured by some traditionally left-wing parties. It also supports social liberalism, which is often seen as left-wing, especially in the United States. This contrast derives in part from The Economist's roots in classical liberalism, disfavouring government interference in either social or economic activity. According to former editor Bill Emmott "The Economist's philosophy has always been liberal, not conservative" (this meant in the non-modern-American senses of those terms). In modern American terms its stance is called libertarianism. However, the views taken by individual contributors are quite diverse.
The Economist has endorsed both the Labour Party and the Conservative Party in recent British elections, and both Republican and Democratic candidates in the United States.
A history of The Economist by the editors of https://www.doczj.com/doc/e71074223.html, puts it this way:
What, besides free trade and free markets, does The Economist believe in? "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." That is as true today as when former Economist editor Geoffrey Crowther said it in 1955. The Economist considers itself the enemy of privilege, pomposity and predictability. It has backed conservatives such as Ronald Reagan and Margaret Thatcher. It has supported the Americans in Vietnam. But it has also endorsed Harold Wilson and Bill Clinton, and espoused a variety of liberal causes: opposing capital punishment from its earliest days, while favouring penal reform and decolonisation, as well as—more recently—gun control and gay marriage.
The Economist has frequently criticised figures and countries deemed corrupt. In recent years, for example, it has been critical of Silvio Berlusconi, Italy's former Prime Minister (who dubbed it The Ecommunist); Laurent Kabila, the late president of the Democratic Republic of the Congo; and Robert Mugabe, the head of government in Zimbabwe. The Economist also called for Donald Rumsfeld's resignation after the emergence of the Abu Ghraib torture and prisoner abuse. Although The Economist supported George W. Bush's election campaign in 2000 and vocally supported the U.S.-led invasion of Iraq in 2003, the editors backed John Kerry in the 2004 election and the editorial tone has since become increasingly critical of the Bush administration due to its general disagreement with the paper's classical liberalism.
Tone and voice
The Economist does not print by-lines identifying the authors of articles. In their own words: "It is written anonymously, because it is a paper whose collective voice and personality matter more than the identities of individual journalists."
The editorial staff enforces a strictly uniform voice throughout the magazine. As a result, most articles read as though they were written by a single author, displaying dry, understated wit, and precise use of
language.
It does not explain terms like invisible hand, macroeconomics, or demand curve, and may take just six or seven words to explain the theory of comparative advantage. The newspaper usually does not translate short French quotes or phrases, and sentences in Ancient Greek or Latin are not uncommon, although these are translated.
It strives to be well-rounded. As well as financial and economic issues, it reports on science, culture, language, literature, and art, and is careful to hire writers and editors who are well-versed in these subjects.
The publication is not without a sense of whimsy. Most articles conclude with a witticism; some have joked that as long as the writers can deliver that, their opinions do not matter. The Letters section usually concludes with an odd or light-hearted letter. One notable example simply asked, "What is the idiot's corner, and how can I get published there?"
Business
Circulation for the newspaper, audited by Audit Bureau of Circulations (ABC), was 1,038,552 for the first half of 2005. Sales inside North America were 51 per cent of the total, with sales in the UK making up 15 per cent of the total and continental Europe 20 per cent. The Economist claims sales, both by subscription and on newstands, in 201 countries.
The newspaper consciously adopts an internationalist approach and notes that over 80% of its readership is from outside the UK, its country of publication.
The Economist Newspaper Limited is a wholly-owned subsidiary of The Economist Group. One half of The Economist Group is owned by private shareholders, including members of the Rothschild banking family of England, and the other half by the Financial Times, a subsidiary of The Pearson Group. The editorial independence of The Economist is strictly upheld. An independent trust board, which has power to block any changes of the editor, exists to ensure this.
Letters
The Economist frequently receives letters from senior businesspeople, politicians and spokespeople for government departments, Non-Governmental Organisations and pressure-groups. While well-written or witty responses from anyone will be considered, controversial issues will frequently produce a torrent of letters. For example, the survey of Corporate Social Responsibility, published January 2005, produced largely critical letters from Oxfam, the UN World Food Programme, UN Global Compact, the Chairman of BT, an ex-Director of Shell and the UK Institute of Directors.
Censorship of The Economist
Sections of The Economist criticising authoritarian regimes, such as China, are frequently removed from the newspaper by the authorities in those countries. Nelson Mandela stated that he used to receive The Economist while imprisoned in South Africa until the authorities there realised that it was not restricted to covering economic issues and was taking a very strong line against the apartheid regime. The government of Saudi Arabia (among others) censors the magazine, which often appears on newsstands with missing pages. Some issues (such as one covering King Fahd's death in 2005) were banned from the kingdom. Robert Mugabe's government in Zimbabwe went further, and imprisoned The Economist's correspondent there, charging him with violating an infamous statute against "publishing untruth" (although he was later acquitted, only to receive a deportation order). In June 15, 2006 Iran banned the sale of The Economist due to a map incorrectly labling the Persian Gulf as the 'Gulf' [16]. Iran's action can be put into context within the larger issue of the Persian Gulf naming dispute.
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https://www.doczj.com/doc/e71074223.html,/forum/viewthread.php?tid=2404&pid=13392&page=1&extra=page%3D1#pid13 392
补充一份英文简介：
Founded in 1843 to support the cause of free trade, The Economist has remained a radical publication of opinion with a reverence for facts. It has become firmly established as one of the world's most authoritative and influential publications. The Economist is famous for its objective, factual writing, rather than for emotive journalism.
The Economist is a weekly international news and business publication offering clear reporting, commentary and analysis on world politics, business, finance, science and technology, books and culture.
Each week The Economist contains 65 pages of concise analysis of world news. It is written for an audience of senior business, political and financial decision-makers who value The Economist for the accuracy of its incisive writing and lack of partisanship.
Editorial independence is at the heart of The Economist. The constitution of the company does not permit any individual or organisation to gain a majority share-holding. The Editor is appointed by Trustees who are independent of commercial, political and proprietorial influences. The respect accorded to The Economist's journalists because of their independence is such that they enjoy access to the political and business leaders who make the news and whose candid views can shed light on what is happening or what is about to happen.
The Economist is different from other publications not only because it offers a broad international perspective but also because it has no bylines. It is written anonymously, because it is a paper whose collective voice and personality matter more than the identities of individual journalists. This ensures a continuity of tradition and view which few other publications have matched.
Although The Economist is published weekly in a magazine format, it is called a newspaper because it is concerned with views as well as news and works to a newspaper deadline. Great care is taken to ensure its topicality, so much of its editorial is rewritten up to the moment of going to press late on Thursday in Europe, Asia and the USA.
Aware that the modern decision-making reader has little time to wade through dull-looking prose, the editors of The Economist have lightened the look of the paper with striking cartoons, witty headlines, diagrams and photographs.