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Article: A sorry state.(a shortage of economics professors in England)(Brief Article)

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July 1, 2000
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Britain used to be good at economics. Nowadays, argues Andrew Oswald in this invited column, the profession is in precipitous decline*

QUALITY is the staple product of this stapled product. To some The Economist 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 ...

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