The Pursuit of Reason: The Economist 1843-1993

Since its founding by James Wilson in 1843 as a radical free-trade journal, The Economist has grown in worldwide weekly circulation to over 500,000 copies (200,000 of which are sold in the United States). In celebration of this influential paper's 150th anniversary, Ruth Dudley Edwards has written The Pursuit of Reason, a work that is at once a history of the major international economic, business, & political issues of the past 150 years and an account of the people who reported on them--now published for the first time in the United States. It includes information about Thomas Hodgskin, Herbert Spencer, William Rathbone Greg, Herbert Henry Asquith, the Irish famine, St. Loe Strachey, Geoffrey Crowther, and the oxbrodge influx.