 Economist Articles
The rise of Asia is not a simple matter of East versus West
| Publication: The Independent | Date: October 30th 2008 | | There is a tendency, particularly in Washington and occasionally in Western Europe, to think of the rise of Japan, China and India as being in some way a matter of power shifting from the Western powers to the East. My belief, and the essence of the argument... |
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A long goodbye
| Publication: The Economist | Date: April 2006 | | Valedictory A long goodbye
Bill Emmott, who stands down as editor on March 31st, offers his parting thoughts
WITH April Fool´s Day as the publication date on my final issue as editor, it is tempting to pretend that my resignation was just a joke, such... |
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The final days of Tony Blair
| Publication: The Economist | Date: March 2006 | | British politics The final days of Tony Blair If Britain´s prime minister is not thinking about stepping down, he should be
ONCE upon a time Britain had a long-serving Labour prime minister, one who had won four general elections. He... |
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Tired of globalisation
| Publication: The Economist | Date: November 2005 | | Trade and poverty Tired of globalisationBut trade liberalisation and other forms of openness are needed more than ever
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FREDERIC BASTIAT, who was that rarest of creatures, a French free-market economist,... |
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The sun also rises (survey)
| Publication: The Economist | Date: October 2005 |  The sun also rises
Japan is at last ready to surprise the world by how well it does, not how badly, writes Bill Emmott, editor of The Economist
NO COUNTRY in modern history has moved so swiftly from worldwide adulation to dismissal... |
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The sun also rises (leader)
| Publication: The Economist | Date: October 2005 | | The sun also rises
Japan´s chances of prosperity and influence look surprisingly bright
IT HAS taken an extraordinarily long time, but Japan really is now recovering from its debt- and deflation-ridden stagnation of the... |
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London under attack
| Publication: The Economist | Date: July 2005 | | London under attack
After the joy of winning the Olympics, evil came swiftly
ONCE it had happened, it produced an awful feeling of inevitability. The series of terrorist attacks on London´s Underground and bus system at the end of the morning rush... |
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There is no alternative (alas)
| Publication: The Economist | Date: April 2005 | | Our British election endorsement There is no alternative (alas)
For want of a better option, we favour another Labour victory on May 5th
For want of a better option, we favour another Labour victory on May 5th
IF BRITAIN´S general election... |
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Asia´s devastation
| Publication: The Economist | Date: December 2004 | | The tsunami Asia´s devastationReflections on a rare but terrible calamity
THE clue lies in the Japanese name that has been adopted for them around the world: tsunami. Formed from the characters for harbour and wave, and commemorated... |
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The incompetent or the incoherent?
| Publication: The Economist | Date: October 2004 | | America´s next president The incompetent or the incoherent?With a heavy heart, we think American readers should vote for John Kerry on November 2nd
YOU might have thought that, three years after a devastating terrorist attack... |
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Resign, Rumsfeld
| Publication: The Economist | Date: May 2004 | | Resign, Rumsfeld
Responsibility for errors and indiscipline needs to be taken at the top
Responsibility for errors and indiscipline needs to be taken at the top
YOU are fighting against international... |
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The case for gay marriage
| Publication: The Economist | Date: February 2004 | | Equal rights The case for gay marriage
Feb 26th 2004 From The Economist print editionIt rests on equality, liberty and even society
SO AT last it is official: George Bush is in favour of unequal rights, big-government intrusiveness... |
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Dear Mr Berlusconi...
| Publication: The Economist | Date: July 2003 | | Dear Mr Berlusconi...
Why we are sending an open letter to the Italian prime minister
Why we are sending an open letter to the Italian prime minister
TO HIS many other talents, Silvio Berlusconi has... |
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Capitalism and Democracy
| Publication: The Economist | Date: June 2003 |  Radical birthday thoughts
Our happy 160th anniversary is an unhappy time for capitalism, writes Bill Emmott, editor of The Economist
WHEN a Scottish businessman named James Wilson founded The Economist 160 years ago this summer,... |
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America´s world role
| Publication: The Economist | Date: June 2002 |  Present at the creation
For the first time at least since 1989, but arguably since 1945, America has both the chance and the motivation to reshape the world, writes Bill Emmott, the editor of The Economist
WHEN Dean Acheson,... |
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Vote conservative
| Publication: The Economist | Date: May 2001 | | Britain´s election Vote conservativeBut choose the ambiguous right-winger rather than the feeble one
THE fact that the most exciting moment of the general-election campaign came two weeks ago, when the deputy prime minister... |
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The 20th Century
| Publication: The Economist | Date: September 1999 |  On the yellow brick road
What might the 21st century bring? Some clues can be found by looking at the ebb and flow of the 20th, writes Bill Emmott, the editor of The Economist
THE fin of this siècle has been an astonishingly... |
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Much more than China
| Publication: The Economist World In 2008 | Date: The World in 2008 | | "Asia is one." When the Beijing Olympics are transfixing the world, it will seem as if that sentence is wrong and that Asia is simply China. Other countries will try to draw your eyes away from the Middle Kingdom to their own domestic events: to India,... |
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