Adrian Wooldridge

Adrian Wooldridge is, as of June 2021, the political editor and "Bagehot" columnist for The Economist newspaper.[1]

Adrian Wooldridge in 2011

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 the "Schumpeter" columnist until the end of 2016.[3] The Bagehot column is described as "an analysis of British life and politics, in the tradition of Walter Bagehot".[4]

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).[5]
  • — (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):

Awards

2017 Gerald Loeb Award for Commentary for "Creative Destruction: The Schumpeter Column"[6]

References
  1. "Adrian Wooldridge". The Economist. Retrieved 19 June 2021.
  2. "Speaker profile at Leigh Bureau". Archived from the original on 28 October 2012. Retrieved 17 August 2008.
  3. Rajan, Amol (19 December 2016). "New Bagehot columnist for the Economist". BBC News. Retrieved 29 October 2021.
  4. "What can Britain today learn from Walter Bagehot?". The Economist. 3 January 2020. Retrieved 19 June 2021.
  5. The Economist often changes the title of a print article when it is published online. This article is titled "To those that have" online.
  6. "UCLA Anderson School of Management Announces 2017 Gerald Loeb Award Winners". UCLA Anderson School of Management. 27 June 2017. Retrieved 31 January 2019.


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