3 Quotes & Sayings By The Economist

The Economist was founded in 1843 as a weekly review of political and economic affairs. Over the next hundred years it developed from a private publication into a major international newspaper, with an extensive print edition as well as a web site. Presenting analysis of the latest developments in business, economics, finance, science and technology, world affairs, politics and culture – with a strong focus on Britain – The Economist is read by more than one million people every week. The paper is published six times a week – Monday to Saturday – and is sold nationally in most newsagents Read more

In addition to the United Kingdom, the Economist has a worldwide readership of around 1.7 million.

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A lot of the people who read a bestselling novel, for example, do not read much other fiction. By contrast, the audience for an obscure novel is largely composed of people who read a lot. That means the least popular books are judged by people who have the highest standards, while the most popular are judged by people who literally do not know any better. An American who read just one book this year was disproportionately likely to have read ‘The Lost Symbol’, by Dan Brown. He almost certainly liked it. The Economist
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An oft-quoted statistic from the [United Nations] reports is that the amount of literature translated into Spanish in a single year exceeds the entire corpus of what has been translated into Arabic in 1, 000 years. The Economist