Quality is the staple product of this stapled product. To some The Econo-mist is dazzling but wrong-headed. To others it is the most persuasive newspaper in the world. None, however, doubts this journal's engagingly acidic genius. And it is a worldly best-seller as well. When you want to check a theory, look at the data. Yet it would be easy to destroy the quality of The Economist. Here is how. Officials around the world, take note. First, we would get the government to impose a regulation requiring most of The Economist's journalists to be paid no more than x. Then x would be lowered, over the years, until in real terms it came to be about half what a London cab driver makes.
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