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The Economist | 
| Publisher: The Economist Newspaper Group, Inc.
Category: Magazine
List Price: $356.49
Buy New: $127.00
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Rating:  64 reviews
Sales Rank: 133
Format: Magazine Subscription, Print
Type: Consumer magazine
Subscription Issues: 51
Subscription Length: 12 Months
Issues Per Year: 51
First Issue Lead Time: 4-6 Weeks
ASIN: B00077B7M6
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Product Description
The Economist is a global weekly magazine written for those who share an uncommon interest in being well and broadly informed. Each issue explores domestic and international issues, business, finance, current affairs, science, technology and the arts. Your paid subscription to The Economist also includes unlimited access to Economist.com and our searchable archive.
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 I am a lifetime subscriber July 25, 2010
Gabriel Iordache
I measure magazines (and newspapers) by the amount of time it takes me to go through them. As time is my most important resource, I think this is a good metric. The Economist is at the top of the list - I spend a minimum of 6 hours with each issues - sometimes (when there's a special report on an issue, or when the Technology Quarterly is published) close to 10. I cannot spend more than 1 hour with Newsweek or Time, at most 3 with Fortune (the only other business magazine I currently subscribe to).
What I like:
1/ The depth of research, the pro-market bias, the complete lack of interest in fads, the staff's ability to pull obscure subjects out of amorphous anonymity and give them significance through proper framing.
2/ The Obituaries. The Technology Quarterly issues. The mix of politics and economics. The books and arts section. The on-line extras. The global perspective.
3/ The consistency. From one issue to the next, Fortune can be brilliant or thin (at times lacking), dealing with the important or with the mundane. There's no such thing at The Economist, where each issue is packed with articles written at the highest standard.
What I don't like - minor quibbles:
1/ The distribution company responsible for delivering the magazine in Canada. Instead of a set day (which was the case when I lived in the US), in Toronto I get the magazine randomly through the week.
2/ Some graphs (which use only shades of blue) are hard to read by a color blind person as myself.
I don't think there's a better way to spend $127/year.
 Quality degrading July 24, 2010
L. Koh (San Francisco, CA USA)
0 out of 1 found this review helpful
Used to be a great magazine. However, I found the quality is degrading over time now. Not too much investigative article that provide anything new from what you have read anywhere else. It serves now more like a weekly digest than anything else.
SIMPLY THE BEST July 16, 2010
Kay's Husband (Virginia, U.S.A.)
Yes, it is expensive, much more so than TIME or any of the others (not many left with NEWSWEAK (Newsweek) taking a dive and US Snooze, I mean US NEWS gone bi-weekly).
If you want a weekly news magazine (they call themselves a newspaper, published since September,1843) that is Sherwin-Williams (covers the world) then the Economist is it. I came upon THE ECONOMIST back in 2004 and haven't gotten it out of my system yet, makes TIME look like an anemic, pale imitator. I've read TIME (from 1958) all my life even in my military years.
If you look at a copy of THE ECONOMIST, and if you enjoy weekly news magazines, you will no doubt be unable to get THE Economist out of your system either.
Plus several times a month the magazine includes a special section on topics and countries: the one for this week is a 14-page report on gambling. Soon the section will be on Egypt and later one on Latin America and later Turkey.
What are you waiting for? This is one news magazine that does it as they used to, you will not be sorry. In the small chance you are sorry, they will courteously stop your subscription and swiftly refund money. (Check out their web site, too.)
Semper Fi.
phony centrist position - has moved from right to left June 22, 2010
Thorsway
2 out of 5 found this review helpful
The Economist, while still a great source for world events, claims to be radically centrist. They give examples of endorsements on the right: Thatcher, Reagen - and on the left: Clinton, Obama. This is specious - chronologically, a trend from moving from right to left is clearly discernable.
They may back the right in an election, but rarely when the election is close. The recent claim that a defeat for Labor in the UK elections would probably be good for the country is not impressive because polls predicted that the election was not significantly in play, but a foregone conclusion.
I get the impression quite frequently that the magazine routinely dissembles it's true perspective. While ostensibly calling out misbehavior among climate researchers in the recent issue on the climate controversy, they on balance papered over and downplayed much of the fraud by leading UK scientists - fraud presented quite baldy elsewhere, for example in Der Spiegel:
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One got the distinct impression that they were doing damage control.
In this week's article, "What's Wrong with the American Right?", the writer drips with scorn and derision in describing "southern fried crazies", the "hysterical blogosphere", "ravings of Fox News blowhards". Fine - one might say that they criticize the Left as well - and they do. But they rarely skewer the Left; it's generally quite gentle for some reason - in the manner that you might chide a favorite cousin for an indiscretion.
And as to their claim that they're classic free market liberals - while supporting the recent healthcare legislation in the US - give me a break!
Insightful and Open Publication June 22, 2010
Shane Lucey (Marysville, WA USA)
The Economist is an excellent source for keeping up on world affairs. Where some news outlets seem to have fallen into a trap of only covering a few glitzy stories or mistaking opinion with fact, the Economist has managed to incorporate a considerable amount of breadth while being almost totally transparent when it comes to stating their own opinions. The result is a meaty magazine that is consistently engaging its readers with fresh perspectives.
What I like most about this publication is how they break down and analyze their news. As someone who was completely new to world affairs it took me only a few issues to begin seeing the many connections in various stories. This is all in thanks to how the Economist is able to compare current events to past ones, highlight the signifigance both nationally and internationally of various events, and then speculate how events may impact the future. And unlike many US based media-behemoths, the Economist seems to take a more open-minded tone; it is able to acknowledge possible pitfalls in its own views while giving a fairly good representation of counter viewpoints.
I would recommend this publication to anyone that could use more insight about international events, or even wanting to see America from an outside perspective (a whole section is dedicated to US news). If you are planning to travel (especially anywhere in Europe, Japan or China) definitely consider adding a subscription to the Economist along with your travel-books. It will give you a great tool to further engage the culture and understand some of the innerworkings of the countries you are traveling to.
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