Adrian Wooldridge
Adrian Wooldridge is as of June 2021 the political editor and "Bagehot" columnist for The Economist newspaper.[1]
Wooldridge was educated at Balliol College, Oxford, where he studied modern history and was awarded a fellowship at All Souls College, also at Oxford University, where he received a doctorate in philosophy in 1985. From 1984 to 1985, he was also a Harkness Fellow, at the University of California at Berkeley.[2]
Until July 2009, he was The Economist's Washington Bureau chief and the "Lexington" columnist, and was formerly the "Schumpeter" columnist.[citation needed] The Bagehot column is described as "an analysis of British life and politics, in the tradition of Walter Bagehot".[3]
Bibliography[]
- Wooldridge, Adrian (1994). Measuring the mind : education and psychology in England c.1860-1990. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press.
- — (18 April 2015). "Family companies". Special Report. The Economist. 415 (8934).[4]
- — (18 April 2015). "A very British business : some lessons from the success of Britain's elite private schools". Schumpeter. The Economist. 415 (8934): 56.
- Greenspan, Alan; Wooldridge, Adrian (2018). Capitalism in America: A History. New York: Penguin Press.
- The Aristocracy of Talent: How Meritocracy Made the Modern World 2021
Co-wrote (with fellow Economist journalist John Micklethwait):
- The Witch Doctors: Making Sense of the Management Gurus (1996)
- (2000)
- (2003)
- The Right Nation: Conservative Power in America (2004)
- God is Back: How the Global Revival of Faith Is Changing the World (2009)
- (2014
- The Wake-Up Call: Why the Pandemic Has Exposed the Weakness of the West, and How to Fix It 2020
Awards[]
2017 Gerald Loeb Award for Commentary for "Creative Destruction: The Schumpeter Column"[5]
References[]
- ^ "Adrian Wooldridge". The Economist. Retrieved 19 June 2021.
- ^ "Speaker profile at Leigh Bureau". Archived from the original on 28 October 2012. Retrieved 17 August 2008.
- ^ "What can Britain today learn from Walter Bagehot?". The Economist. 3 January 2020. Retrieved 19 June 2021.
- ^ The Economist often changes the title of a print article when it is published online. This article is titled "To those that have" online.
- ^ "UCLA Anderson School of Management Announces 2017 Gerald Loeb Award Winners". UCLA Anderson School of Management. 27 June 2017. Retrieved 31 January 2019.
External links[]
- Journalist profile at The Economist
- Adrian Wooldridge's final Lexington column
- Appearances on C-SPAN
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- Harkness Fellows
- Fellows of All Souls College, Oxford
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- Gerald Loeb Award winners for Columns, Commentary, and Editorials
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