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Ben Jackson is Associate Professor of Modern History at Oxford University and Co-Editor of Political Quarterly.
With its elite decision-makers and opinion-formers—and over 1.5 million copies sold per week—the Economist has exerted tremendous influence on popular liberal discourse for more than a century.
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