* John Grimond, a foreign editor of The Economist who in 1973 married Kate Fleming ( b. 1946 ), elder daughter of the writer Peter Fleming and actress Celia Johnson, and has three children with her.

Economist Peter Leeson attributes the increase in economic activity since the fall of the Siad Barre administration to the security in life, liberty and property provided by Xeer in large parts of Somalia.

* Peter C. B. Phillips, Economist

The opening mimes were filmed on the Plaza of The Economist Building in Piccadilly, London, a project by ' New Brutalists ' Alison and Peter Smithson constructed between 1959 – 64.

* The Economist Group headquarters in the City of London, designed by Peter and Alison Smithson.

After the pastoral political paradisal Pacific Highway Wilding published two documentary novels, The Paraguayan Experiment, the story of the New Australia settlement, and Raising Spirits, Making Gold and Swapping Wives: The True Adventures of Dr John Dee & Sir Edward Kelly, which Peter Porter selected as one of The Economist Books of the Year: ' The story of Queen Elizabeth I's necromancer, John Dee, as transcribed from original documents interspersed with Michael Wilding's own words.

British editions of The Economist ran a blank page with a boxed explanation that " In all but one country, our readers have on this page a review of ' Spycatcher ,' a book by an ex-M. I. 5 man, Peter Wright.

Economist Peter Barnes has proposed a sky trust to fix this problem.

* Tax Evasion and Fraud collected news and commentary at The Economist

The World Values Survey data has been used in thousands of scholarly publications and the findings have been reported in media such as Time, Newsweek, The New York Times, The Guardian, Discover Magazine, China Dialogue, CNN, The Economist, the World Development Report and the Human Development Report of the United Nations.

* The Big Mac Index index page — contains Big Mac Index data dating back to 1997 ( Economist. com subscription required for detail )

Economist Thomas Mayer has argued that Austrian economists have advocated a rejection of scientific methods which involve directly using empirical data in the development of ( falsifiable ) theories ; application of empirical data is fundamental to the scientific method.

* Hal Varian, Chief Economist at Google, says Better data makes for better science.

It has been reported in the UK Economist magazine that UK banks are required to retain data on all financial transactions for seven years.

A quarterly report prepared by the Economist Intelligence Unit on behalf of Barclays Wealth in 2007 estimated that there were 48, 000 dollar millionaires in Malaysia ( over twice that of China ).

The social panic approach is justified by the language used – we talk of the battle against terrorism or the war on drugs ..." The Economist magazine has become increasingly vocal in its criticism of such regulation, particularly with reference to countering terrorist financing, referring to it as a " costly failure ", although concedes that the rules to combat money laundering are more effective.

Economist Intelligence Unit, while admitting that “ there is no consensus on how to measure democracy ” and that “ definitions of democracy are contested ”, lists North Korea in last place as the most authoritarian regime in its index of democracy assessing 167 countries.

* Blog by Economist on School Choice

After Keynes's death Schumpeter wrote a brief biographical piece called Keynes the Economist – on a personal level he was very positive about Keynes as a man ; praising his pleasant nature, courtesy and kindness.

A New Zealand Economist, Steven O ' Donnell, expanded on the Bardham and Roemer model and decomposed the capital function in a general equilibrium system to take account of entrepreneurial activity in market socialist economies.

Economist Thomas DiLorenzo notes that Senator Sherman sponsored the 1890 William McKinley tariff just three months after the Sherman Act, and agrees with The New York Times which wrote on October 1, 1890: " That so-called Anti-Trust law was passed to deceive the people and to clear the way for the enactment of this Pro-Trust law relating to the tariff.

* Economist article on the January 14, 2003 " truce "

For historical reasons The Economist refers to itself as a newspaper, but each print edition appears on small glossy paper like a news magazine, and its YouTube channel is called EconomistMagazine.

The Economist online posts each week's new content on Thursday afternoon, ahead of the official publication date.

After The Economist ran a critique of Amnesty International and human rights in general in its issue dated 24 March 2007, its letters page ran a vibrant reply from Amnesty, as well as several other letters in support of the organisation, including one from the head of the United Nations Commission on Human Rights.

Almost every ad consists of a witticism written in white on a plain red background, usually with ' The Economist ' in the bottom right-hand corner.

Roughly every two weeks, The Economist publishes special reports ( previously called surveys ) on a given topic.

In 1991, James Fallows argued in The Washington Post that The Economist suffers from British class snobbery, pretentiousness, and simplistic argumentation, and " unwholesomely purveys smarty-pants English attitudes on our shores ".

" In April 2009, The Economist published an article on Indonesian democracy with the title " Beyond the crossroads ".

* List of Washington University faculty and staff: economist and Nobel Memorial Prize winner Douglass North ; husband and wife biochemists and co-Nobel Prize winners Carl and Gerty Cori ; physicist and Nobel Prize winner Arthur Holly Compton ; novelists Stanley Elkin and William Gass ; poets Carl Phillips and Mary Jo Bang ; architect Fumihiko Maki ; neurologist and Nobel Prize winner Rita Levi-Montalcini ; sex researchers William Masters and Virginia Johnson ; Poets Laureate Howard Nemerov and Mona Van Duyn ; sociologist and " outlaw Marxist " Alvin Ward Gouldner ; attorney, former Counsel to Vice-President Al Gore and former Tennessee Attorney General Charles Burson ; writer and culture critic Gerald Early ; Economist, and former Chair of President Ronald Reagan's Council of Economic Advisors, Murray Weidenbaum ; chemist Joseph W. Kennedy, co-discoverer of the element plutonium ; computer scientist Jonathan S. Turner, internationally renowned expert in computer networking ; computer scientist Raj Jain, pioneer in the field of network congestion ; and Law Professor Troy A. Paredes, currently on leave as a commissioner of the SEC.

The Economist magazine describes Brin's approach to life, like Page's, as based on a vision summed up by Google's motto, " of making all the world's information ' universally accessible and useful.

The newsmagazine The Economist estimated that up to 75 % of the value of US public companies is now based on their intellectual property ( up from 40 % in 1980 ).

* The Economist Has No Clothes – essay by Robert Nadeau in Scientific American on the basic assumptions behind current economic theory

* Fast food's yummy secret: America's second-biggest fast-food group is as successful as it is little known Special report in The Economist ( August 27, 2005 ) on Yum!

From October to July 2005, some 124, 400 illegal foreign nationals were apprehended in the area, a 46 % increase on the previous year ( Economist, August 27, 2005 ).

Economist Eugene Fama published the seminal paper on the EMH in the Journal of Finance in 1970, and said " In short, the evidence in support of the efficient markets model is extensive, and ( somewhat uniquely in economics ) contradictory evidence is sparse.

In May 2006, The Economist reported that 90 % of clips on YouTube came from amateurs, a few of whom are young comedians.

A recent example is the Troubled Asset Relief Program ( TARP ), signed into law by U. S. President George W. Bush on October 3, 2008 to provide a Government bailout for many financial and non-financial institutions who speculated in high-risk financial instruments during the housing boom condemned by a 2005 story in The Economist titled " The worldwide rise in house prices is the biggest bubble in history ".

* The Economist has a blog on books, arts and culture that is called ' Prospero '.

" The Economist Intelligence Unit reports that the " poor investment climate, including annulments of some earlier sales, continues to deter many Western investors.

The Economist claims sales, both by subscription and at newsagents, in over 200 countries.

The Economist reported that Chinese art has become the latest darling in the world market according to the record sales from Sotheby's and Christie's, the biggest fine-art auction houses.

In a 2004 journal article Economist Alex Tabarrok argues that allowing organ sales, and elimination of organ donor lists will increase supply, lower costs and diminish social anxiety towards organ markets.

During his tenure, the circulation of The Economist doubled from 500, 000 to nearly 1, 100, 000 weekly sales.