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• The Economist.com archive contains web-only content as well as all articles from The Economist newspaper published since June 1997
• The Economist print-edition archive contains all articles from The Economist newspaper published since June 1997. It excludes web-only content
• The Economics A-Z archive is the online version of "Essential Economics", by Matthew Bishop
• The Economist Intelligence Unit (EIU) archive contains all publications from the EIU since January 1996.

By default, individual terms will be combined using BOOLEAN "AND", meaning that all the terms entered will be in the articles returned, though they will not necessarily be close together. If you want to search for a particular phrase, it is best to enclose the phrase in inverted commas—eg, "monetary union". The search limits available for each of the three archives vary slightly because the data in each one are structured differently.

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