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Andreas Kluth
Personal blog · andreaskluth.orghistoryeconomicswriting
Andreas Kluth writes Hannibal and Me: life lessons from history, a personal blog at andreaskluth.org about history, economics and writing. Since 2011, 5 different Hacker News readers have linked it 5 times. The last post was in 2023, but the archive is still widely read.
Too few sampled comments (2) to say how often HN recommends it.?
Why HN links it
Commenters link this blog for a 2008 post explaining why The Economist publishes without bylines, which they cite when discussing the magazine's anonymous writing.
Summarised by Claude from a sample of 2 HN comments that link here. Each comment is marked recommending, critical or neutral (citing without judging); how this works.
I'm a columnist for Bloomberg Opinion, based near Washington, DC. Between March of 2017 and February of 2019, I was Editor-in-Chief of Handelsblatt Global, the English-language edition of Germany's leading business newspaper. For the two decades before that, I wrote for The Economist - in London, Ho
Most-linked posts?
- /2008/11/20/why-the-economist-has-no-bylines/2 people · 2 mentions · first linked 2017-02-12
What Hacker News says?
"The Economist is 160+ years old, and back then anonymity was the norm. Then the industry went on a slightly disturbing path toward writer celebrity, and we simply chose not to participate." https://andreaskluth.org/2008/11/20/why-the-economist-has-no...
Comment linking /2008/11/20/why-the-economist-has-no-bylines/
on “Too many prisons make people worse”Submitted Why The Economist has no bylines as a story · 3 points
HN discussionThe Economist famously doesn't use bylines: http://www.economist.com/blogs/economist-explains/2013/09/ec... https://andreaskluth.org/2008/11/20/why-the-economist-has-no... Generally, I imagine they're reputable enough that they should disclose any conflicts of interest, but who knows...
Comment linking /2008/11/20/why-the-economist-has-no-bylines/
on “Britain’s delusions about the green belt cause untold misery”Submitted The Sociological Breakthrough of Google+ as a story · 2 points
HN discussionSubmitted The “story” of Iceland and Greenland as a story · 1 points
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