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I was actually under the impression the economist leaned towards the right.

>>Miston+(OP)
> What, besides free trade and free markets, does The Economist believe in? "It is to the Radicals that The Economist still likes to think of itself as belonging. The extreme centre is the paper's historical position." That is as true today as when Crowther said it in 1955. The Economist considers itself the enemy of privilege, pomposity and predictability. It has backed conservatives such as Ronald Reagan and Margaret Thatcher. It has supported the Americans in Vietnam. But it has also endorsed Harold Wilson and Bill Clinton, and espoused a variety of liberal causes: opposing capital punishment from its earliest days, while favouring penal reform and decolonisation, as well as—more recently—gun control and gay marriage.

http://www.economist.com/help/DisplayHelp.cfm?folder=663377#...

>>Miston+(OP)
20 years ago they used to be considered a conservative publication, but now that the US has shifted rightward they seem liberal.

What they really are is liberal in the original 19th century sense of the word. I.e. Whigs.

>>Miston+(OP)
Closer to libertarian, like many economists.

>>davidw+f
just my impression from there steadfast support of US in Iraq. good to see they go both ways, its a great news mag that I love to read.

>>rms+C
Academic economists are overwhelmingly left of center. It's a different story when you talk about industry economists without financial ties to universities.

>>kingko+32
The left/right scales start getting really wonky... the liberal academic economists also almost unanimously support free free trade.