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Ben Jackson

Ben Jackson is Associate Professor of Modern History at Oxford University and Co-Editor of Political Quarterly.

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With its elite decision-makers and opinion-formers, the Economist has exerted tremendous influence on popular liberal discourse for more than a century.

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