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March 30, 2006

Economist Portrait of Chicago

The March 18, 2006, issue of Economist featured their “Survey of Chicago.” Within the seven sections of the survey, the author recognizes Chicago’s successful transformation from a rust belt industrial city slowly losing steam to a brainpower- fueled global trader. Chicago’s exploitation of its natural resources for economic benefit and its long history of lionizing the entrepreneur are viewed by the author as its founding tenet and one of its saving graces. The survey also explores Chicago’s unique political climate, which it delicately describes as “benign dictatorship.”

The March 18, 2006, issue is available electronically via our periodicals databases to Hinsdale Public Library card holders. The paper copy of the Economist can be checked out, you may reserve our copy through the library catalog.

Posted by hinsdalereference at March 30, 2006 5:20 PM