Sounded wrong to me too. But, as 'ig1' pointed in another comment, it's a signed piece extracted from a book - seems like one of those "we asked N people questi

Sounded wrong to me too. But, as 'ig1' pointed in another comment, it's a signed piece extracted from a book - seems like one of those "we asked N people question X" things. The "official" Economist pieces are unsigned.