Tag The Economist

Ideas? Not again!

At some point I got the feeling The Economist had become a sort of Reader’s Digest written by Oxbridge PPE/SPS graduates. But low expectations multiply the chances for a positive surprise, like this: Its [the Alt-Right’s] more cerebral fellow-travelers reheat…

Peter Thiel follows Schumpeter, not Ayn Rand

The Economist runs regular columns named after prominent figures from the past: Bagehot, Charlemagne, Babbage. Under “Schumpeter,” they wrote of Peter Thiel earlier this year: In a book, “Zero to One”, published in 2014, he pooh-poohed competition and celebrated the…