It has regularly been considered the best statistical organization in the world by The Economist, such as in the 1991 and 1993 " Good Statistics " surveys.

The Economist magazine regularly provides such a snapshot as well, for a broad range of countries ( a recent example is provided here ).

Fleishman has written for Wired, Fortune, and PC World, and contributes regularly to The New York Times, The Economist, Popular Science, The Seattle Times ( columnist ), Macworld, and TidBITS ( contributing editor ).

According to the Human Development Index, the country enjoys a very high standard of living, and, according to The Economist, has the world's 8th highest quality of life.

The Economist has suggested that improvements to bankruptcy law, land transfer law, and tax laws will aid Japan's economy.

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.

The Economist noted, " Laurie Williams of the University of Utah in Salt Lake City has shown that paired programmers are only 15 % slower than two independent individual programmers, but produce 15 % fewer bugs.

Nobel Prize winning Economist and former Enron advisor Paul Krugman has been very critical of this program arguing the non-recourse loans lead to a hidden subsidy that will be split by asset managers, banks ' shareholders and creditors.

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.

Economist Bryan Caplan has referred to Communism as " the largest cargo cult the world has ever seen ", describing the economic strategy of the 20th-century Communist leaders as " mimicking a few random characteristics of advanced economies ", such as the production of steel.

His work has appeared in The New York Times, The New Yorker, Spin, Mother Jones, Esquire, The Economist and The American Prospect.

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

In April 1994 the Economist, in an article entitled " Perrypatetic ," observed: " The man who has started to sound like a secretary of state is in fact the defense secretary, William Perry.

Economist Robert J. Gordon has called this the " Triangle Model " because it explains short-run inflationary behavior by three factors: demand inflation ( due to low unemployment ), supply-shock inflation ( gUMC ), and inflationary expectations or inertial inflation.

According to an article published in The Economist, the work of Cavalli-Sforza " challenges the assumption that there are significant genetic differences between human races, and indeed, the idea that ' race ' has any useful biological meaning at all ".

* 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.

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 was introduced in The Economist in September 1986 by Pam Woodall as a semi-humorous illustration and has been published by that paper annually since then.

Economist Mark Blaug has criticized over-reliance on methodological individualism, " it is helpful to note what methodological individualism strictly interpreted ... would imply for economics.

In the words of the Economist: " never has an ambush been more carefully laid for such an event.

The Economist article pointed out that in many emerging countries the middle class has not grown incrementally, but explosively.

According to The Economist, one of the best studies to understand TRIA has been the one undertaken in 2005 by the Center for Risk Management at the Wharton Business School (" TRIA and Beyond "; available on their website below ).

The Economist has referred to " the implicit government guarantee " of FHLMC and FNMA.

The Economist has used it as a reference point for comparing the cost of living in different countries — the Big Mac Index — as it is so widely available and is comparable across markets.

Marr has remarked that his time at The Economist " changed me quite a lot " and " made me question a lot of my assumptions ".

The Economy of Angola is one of the fastest-growing economies in the world, with the Economist asserting that for 2001 to 2010, Angolas ' Annual average GDP growth was 11. 1 percent.

BrE usage varies, with some authoritative sources such as The Economist and The Times recommending the same usage as in the US, whereas other authoritative sources, such as The King's English, recommend single quotation marks.

After the book's release, Klein was heavily criticized by the news magazine The Economist, leading to a broadcast debate with Klein and the magazine's writers, dubbed " No Logo vs.

Economist Richard C. Koo wrote that under ideal conditions, a country's economy should have the household sector as net savers and the corporate sector as net borrowers, with the government budget nearly balanced and net exports near zero.

The Economist Intelligence Unit classifies Singapore as a " hybrid " country, with authoritarian and democratic elements.

According to the Economist magazine, the military, are major powerbrokers along with " a select group " of unelected civilians.

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.

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.

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

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In 1977 The Economist reported that ethnic Fijians were a minority of 255, 000, in a total population of 600, 000 of which fully half were of Indian descent, with the remainder Chinese, European and of mixed ancestry.

In a 2005 study of 127 world cities, the Economist Intelligence Unit ranked the city first ( in a tie with Vancouver, Canada ) for the world's most livable cities ( in the 2012 survey of 140 cities Vienna was ranked number two, behind Melbourne ).

In an interview with the Economist, Ovshinsky subscribed to the former view.

The Economist called her a " scintillating wordsmith " and an " expert literary critic ", but commented that her logic does not match her prose in Payback: Debt and the Shadow Side of Wealth, a book which commences with the conception of debt and its kinship with justice.

Whereas de Soto's work is popular with policymakers and champions of free market policies like The Economist, many scholars of the informal economy have criticized it both for methodological flaws and normative bias.

His family did not live in the presidential palace with him and his nocturnal escapades were reported by publications such as Le Monde, The Economist and the International Herald Tribune.

The magazine The Economist was initiated during September 1843 by politician James Wilson with help from the Anti-Corn Law League ; his son-in-law Walter Bagehot later became the editor of this newspaper.

Economist Joseph Schumpeter, who contributed greatly to the study of innovation, argued that industries must incessantly revolutionize the economic structure from within, that is innovate with better or more effective processes and products, such as the shift from the craft shop to factory.

The charitable foundation was reported by the business newspaper The Economist in May 2006 to be technically the world's wealthiest charity – with an estimated value of at least US $ 36 billion in 2006 ( larger than the Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation ) – but its primary purpose is corporate tax-optimization and anti-takeover protection for IKEA.

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Economist and author Jude Wanniski later correlated these swings with the prospects for passage of the Smoot – Hawley Tariff Act, which was then being debated in Congress.