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25 unusual facts about the Economist


2010 Lisbon summit

Prior to the summit, an article in The Economist noted that Russia may be more willing to cooperate on NATO issues and may pledge to contribute troops to Afghanistan.

2013 Benghazi conflict

According to The Economist, following the June fighting "Libya's leaders are celebrating what they herald as the beginning of the end of militia rule and the restoration of a functioning state", while Libya's liberals "cheer the demise of what they have seen as the armed wing of their Islamist foes."

Abraham Flexner

Billionaire Warren Buffett said in a 2012 interview with The Economist that a book he read by Flexner had "huge impact" on him as a teenager.

Asma Jahangir

On November 5, 2007, The Economist reported that "Over 500 lawyers, opposition politicians and human rights activists have been arrested. They include Asma Jahangir, boss of the country’s human-rights commission and a former UN special rapporteur. In an e-mail from her house arrest, where she has been placed for 90 days, Ms Jahangir regretted that General Musharraf had "lost his marbles".

Bentalha massacre

The number of deaths reported ranged from 85 (initial official estimate) to 400 (The Economist)

Blowtorch Entertainment

According toThe Economist, Blowtorch is "making video content for 18- to 24-year-old" and

Carlotta Gall

In 1998 she moved to the Financial Times and The Economist reporting on the Caucasus and Central Asia from Baku, Azerbaijan.

Carrot and stick

The earliest citation of this expression recorded by the Supplement to the Oxford English Dictionary is to The Economist magazine in the December 11, 1948, issue.

Chicks with Guns

McCrum stated that the idea for photo-book came after reading an article in The Economist which described the large size of the American gun industry.

CUNY Graduate School of Journalism

Its faculty is drawn from current and former journalists at The New York Times, BusinessWeek, The Economist, The Nation, NBC Nightly News, and PBS, among others.

Eberhard Faber

Count Anton Wolfgang von Faber-Castell had his pencil durability test published in The Economist magazine for the 3 March 2007 issue.

Freej

The Economist said "the show has gained the region-wide, cross-generational popularity of an Arab "Simpsons" and "this depiction of raucous and irreverent Arab matriarchs has proved to be a revelation.

Hans Schenk

The Economist qualified him as “the internationally most reputable Dutch economist” in 1993.

Huawei SingleRAN

According to The Economist, América Móvil found that the power consumption of its base stations was reduced by 50% and the volume of equipment it needed was reduced by 70%, following deployment of Huawei’s SingleRAN hardware.

Jesse H. Jones Graduate School of Business

The Economist in 2009 ranks the Jones School 22nd among U.S. business schools – the highest ranked business school in Texas and the Southwest.

The full-time program is consistently ranked among the top tier of business schools by multiple publications including Businessweek, U.S. News & World Report, Financial Times and the Economist.

Karem Aircraft

Karem was the former chief designer for the Israeli Air Force — who built his first drone during 1973's Yom Kippur War — and has been described by The Economist as the man who "created the robotic plane that transformed the way modern warfare is waged — and continues to pioneer other airborne innovations".

Kepler-10b

On January 13, 2011, 3 days after the planet's discovery was announced, The Economist published an article suggesting “Vulcan” as an unofficial name for the planet, after both the hypothetical planet, and the Roman god of the same name.

Marquette Savings Bank

Marquette was honored by the global publication, The Economist in the Nov. 30th 2013 issue.

Orion Confectionery

Orion maintains a "Choco Pie Index" created as a parody of The Economists Big Mac Index.

PrimeGrid

PrimeGrid's author Rytis Slatkevičius has been featured as a young entrepreneur in The Economist.

Si Zerrouk massacre

That night, a number of guerrillas armed with shotguns, knives, and sabres (30 according to The Economist, 100 according to Liberte) stormed into the area by night and started breaking into homes and cutting the residents' throats, killing men, women, and babies, and burning some victims alive.

Stijn Claessens

Stijn has many distinguished academic publications and his work has been cited in many outlets including The Wall Street Journal, The Financial Times, The Economist, The Washington Post and various other publications and he has appeared in several television programs.

Stockbridge Village

It was the subject of an article in a special report by The Economist entitled "A new kind of ghetto", which described it a predominantly White area of high unemployment and low aspirations.

Strait of Belle Isle

The October 2003 provincial election resulted in the newly elected PC government announcing joint federal-provincial funding for a study of the concept, which was promptly derided by The Economist.


Alexey Kondrashov

The paper attracted a lot of public attention and Kondrashov was interviewed by The New York Times,The Los Angeles Times, The Economist and several television networks.

American University in Bulgaria

Evgeny Morozov, AUBG graduate, Class of 2005, author of The Net Delusion: The Dark Side of Internet Freedom (January 2011); a contributing editor to Foreign Policy, contributor to The Economist, Wall Street Journal, Newsweek, Washington Post, International Herald Tribune, Le Monde, and many others

Anthony Goldbloom

He conceived of the idea behind Kaggle while working as an intern at The Economist in London, where he was asked to write an article on the emerging area of "big data".

Benjamin Ivry

Ivry has written about the arts for a variety of periodicals including The New York Observer, New York Sun, New England Review, The Economist, The Wall Street Journal, Newsweek, Time, The New Statesman, The New York Times, Bloomberg.com, and The Washington Post.

Big Five law firms

Golden Circle, a term used for example, by The Economist, or Silver Circle coined by The Lawyer magazine in 2005 to describe mid-market or boutique law firms in the UK with profits per partner levels similar to those of the Magic Circle but being much smaller in terms of overall turnover and numbers of lawyers

Big Six law firms

Golden Circle (used by The Economist, for example; also Silver Circle, which was coined by The Lawyer magazine in 2005): mid-market or boutique law firms in the UK with profits per partner levels similar to those of the Magic Circle but being much smaller in terms of overall turnover and numbers of lawyers

Colin Woodard

His work has appeared in dozens of publications including The Economist, Smithsonian, The Washington Post, Newsweek/The Daily Beast, Bloomberg View, Washington Monthly, and Down East, where he was a contributing editor.

Criticism of Osama bin Laden

Among the Western authors who have identified or alleged errors and inconsistencies in bin Laden's arguments is The Economist’s Mideast correspondent, Max Rodenbeck, writing in The New York Review of Books.

Gisèle Wulfsohn

Wulfsohn's photographs have been published internationally in publications such as Mother Jones, The Lancet, The Economist, Der Spiegel (Germany), Marie Claire (UK, Germany, Poland, Hong Kong), Los Angeles Times, New Internationalist, as well as in local and general publications.

Glasgow effect

British University of Pennsylvania psychology Professor Adrian Raine, in an article for The Economist noted the glorification of "ned" culture in the Scottish media, and suggested that Glasgow may have a higher concentration of psychopaths than other cities in Europe.

Global Peter Drucker Forum

Speakers at the conference included the philosopher Charles Handy, Harvard professor Rakesh Khurana, daughter of the late C.K. Prahalad and author Deepa Prahalad, director and founder of the Legatum Centre at MIT Iqbal Quadir, Adrian Wooldridge of The Economist.

Joko Widodo

According to The Economist, Jokowi "has a penchant for loud rock music" and once owned a bass guitar signed by a member of heavy-metal band Metallica.

Jonathan Tisdall

He has also written articles in magazines such as The Spectator, The Economist, and Scanorama.

Martin Feldstein

The New York Times wrote an editorial advocating that Bush choose either Feldstein or Ben Bernanke due to their credentials, and the week of the nomination The Economist predicted that the two men had the greatest probability of selection out of the field of candidates.

Melanie Friend

As a freelance photojournalist in the 1980s, she reported for broadcast and print media such as the World Service, BBC Radio 4, The Guardian, The New York Times, The Economist, and the Financial Times.

Mervyn De Silva

During his career De Silva also worked for numerous foreign media including the BBC, Financial Times, The Economist, The Times of India, The Deccan Herald, New York Times, International Herald Tribune, Newsweek, Le Monde Diplomatique, The Guardian, The Christian Science Monitor and Far Eastern Economic Review.

Nathan Wolfe

Wolfe’s work has been published in and covered by the popular media including The New York Times and The Economist, Discover, and Scientific American.

Rahul Panicker

In December 2013, Panicker and the other co-founders of Embrace, Jane Chen, Linus Liang and Nag Murty received The Economist Innovation Award for Social and Economic Innovation.

Romek Marber

In 2013, The Minories, Colchester exhibited a retrospective of graphic work designed by Romek Marber for Penguin books, The Economist, New Society, Town and Queen magazines, Nicholson’s London Guides, BBC Television, Columbia Pictures, London Planetarium and others.

In 1961, impressed by Marber’s covers for The Economist, Germano Facetti commissioned Marber to design covers for Simeon Potter's Our Language and Language in the Modern World.

Ruth Dudley Edwards

Her non-fiction books include An Atlas of Irish History, James Connolly, Victor Gollancz: A Biography (winner of the James Tait Black Memorial Prize), The Pursuit of Reason: The Economist 1843–1993, The Faithful Tribe: An Intimate Portrait of the Loyal Institutions (shortlisted for Channel 4/The House Politico's Book of the Year) and Newspapermen: Hugh Cudlipp, Cecil King and the glory days of Fleet Street.

Seeds of Change: Five Plants That Transformed Mankind

Seeds of Change: Five plants that transformed mankind is a 1985 book by Henry Hobhouse, formerly a journalist for The Economist, News Chronicle, Daily Express, and the Wall Street Journal, consultant to the Quincentenary of Columbus Exhibition, Smithsonian Institution, Washington DC, and Chairman of the Rerstmoceux Science Centre.

Suketu Mehta

Maximum City was also chosen as one of the books of the year 2004 by The Economist.

Tigerspike

Tigerspike has developed applications for many print media companies such as The Economist and Haaretz.

Urban Prep Academies

Print media on the school has included pieces in the Wall Street Journal, The Economist, Chicago Tribune, Ebony Magazine and The Guardian.

Zhou Weihui

She has presented her work in a large number of Western publications, including The New York Times, The New Yorker, Time, CNN, USA Today, the BBC, The Times, The Sunday Times, The Economist, Stern, Welt am Sonntag, Asahi Shimbun, NHK, Yomiuri Shimbun, Le Monde, ND Le Figaro.