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The complete online archive of every issue of the global weekly newspaper

Researchers and students will now be able to access high quality primary sources of more than 160 years of The Economist, enabling them to facilitate comparisons of economic trends across continents and centuries.

Features and benefits:

• Authoritative “leaders” (editorials), news coverage, commentaries and letters on British, American and world politics and business
• Special surveys and supplements on Countries and Industries
• Renowned sections including ‘Science and Technology’
• Classified and display advertising profiling major companies, job opportunities, etc
• Detailed topic search, facsimile pages, hit-term highlighting
• Searchable ‘covers gallery’
• Searchable financial data
• Key economic indicators post-1983 available in exportable format

Founded in 1843 to campaign for free trade and freedom of the individual, its principles and its methods remain just as relevant today. With a global circulation of more than 1.2 million, The Economist has consistently delivered a highly intelligent and comprehensive report of the week's events, with dispatches from all over the world.

Objective, written anonymously, and editorially independent, The Economist is renowned for its consistent approach to internationalism and championing of minimal interference by governments in political and business affairs.

The ideal historical resource for cutting-edge ideas in an easily digestible form.