<P> The American author Michael Lewis has criticised the magazine's editorial anonymity, labeling it a means to hide the youth and inexperience of those writing articles . In 1991 Lewis quipped: "The magazine is written by young people pretending to be old people...If American readers got a look at the pimply complexions of their economic gurus, they would cancel their subscriptions in droves". It should be noted that although individual articles are written anonymously, there is no secrecy over who the writers are, since they publicly disclose their employer on their social network accounts, for example . </P> <P> John Ralston Saul describes The Economist as a "...magazine which hides the names of the journalists who write its articles in order to create the illusion that they dispense disinterested truth rather than opinion . This sales technique, reminiscent of pre-Reformation Catholicism, is not surprising in a publication named after the social science most given to wild guesses and imaginary facts presented in the guise of inevitability and exactitude . That it is the Bible of the corporate executive indicates to what extent received wisdom is the daily bread of a managerial civilization ." </P> <P> Each of The Economist issue's official date range is from Saturday to the following Friday . The Economist posts each week's new content online at approximately 2100 Thursday evening UK time, ahead of the official publication date . </P> <P> In 1877, the publication's circulation was 3,700, and in 1920 it had risen to 6,000 . Circulation increased rapidly after 1945, reaching 100,000 by 1970 . </P>

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