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> [...] the field from which it draws its name [...]

The Economist was founded in 1843 and draws its name from a then-current term for something like a 'free-trade liberal' (with perhaps a fiscal conservative bend). Not the modern day field of economics.

Their big beef at the time of founding was a fight against the Corn Laws, a protectionist tariff against importing grain into Britain.

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My apologies, I've corrected my comment.

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No worries.

> This millennium is also entirely, utterly, absolutely defined by the short-sighted ideas of the economist.

I think you give them more credit than is due.

(And for all their faults, I don't think you can accuse them of eg having caused covid or started the war against Ukraine or turned China towards greater autocracy again.)

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I’m just saying, it’d be nice to see some self-reflection once in a while.

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Well, the article you commented on is that self-reflection.