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The Economist is a magazine published each week in England. It was founded in 1843. It currently has about 1.3 million subscribers.

The Economist is classically liberal and economically liberal. It supports free trade, globalization, and the legalization of same-sex marriage and illegal drugs. It targets highly educated readers, as well as famous people such as Bill Gates, Ronald Reagan, Margaret Thatcher, and Ted Turner.

Tone and voice

The Economist has a consistent voice, partly because its writers are anonymous. It assumes its readers have a basic understanding of economics. Its articles are often witty.

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    Zanny Minton Beddoes was appointed editor in 2015, first joining as an emerging markets correspondent in 1994.

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    A series of Economist technical manuals, 2020

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  • David Hume and Adam Smith statues

    Scottish economist Adam Smith (right) and philosopher David Hume (left) represent the newspaper's foundational beliefs of laissez-faire policies, self-sufficiency, anti-protectionism and free trade.

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    A display of newspapers in Whole Foods supermarket, depicting the COVID-19 pandemic.

  • A page ripped out from The Economist by China's censorship department (cropped)

    A page ripped out from The Economist by China's censorship department in Liaoning Provincial Library.

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