The ghosts of The Economist Past

摘要

WHEN THE ECONOMIST was founded in 1843-the year that Charles Dickens published "A Christmas Carol"-it looked to the present and future. Animated by the belief "that free trade, free intercourse, will do more than any other visible agent to extend civilization and morality throughout the world", its founders set out to cover trade, politics, and literature in 16 pages of run-on sentences every week.