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I have a question about "be published from" here:

A report published Tuesday from Angus Armstrong and Monique Ebell of the National Institute of Economic and Social Research, a private think tank, estimates Scotland would face twin deficits in its first year: a budget deficit of over 6% of gross domestic product and a current-account shortfall—the balance of trade in goods and services with net interest payments—of a similar magnitude.

Would "be published by" be the same as "be published from"?

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  • Your link requires a subscription so I can't check it. But I would say "published by" refers the the publisher/publication, not the writers (Angus Armstrong and Monique Ebell).
    – user3169
    Commented Sep 20, 2014 at 19:26
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    It is not a report published by or from anybody; it is a report from the authors which was published on Tuesday.
    – StoneyB on hiatus
    Commented Sep 20, 2014 at 20:27

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"From" is referring to the "report" (not to "published").

Here's the same text rearranged and simplfied:

A report from Angus Armstrong and Monique Ebell of the National Institute of Economic and Social Research, a private think tank, was published Tuesday. It estimates [...]

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  • I'd prefer published on Tuesday myself. I think that leaving out the on is American.
    – TRiG
    Commented Oct 1, 2014 at 11:45
  • @TRiG Yeah, "published Tuesday" often confuses me too. I deliberately kept the original text's wording here though, to make it clearer what got rearranged.
    – Anko
    Commented Oct 1, 2014 at 15:11
  • @TRiG By the way, English SE has a question about that and it indeed seems to be mostly an Americanism.
    – Anko
    Commented Oct 1, 2014 at 15:59
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I think in your example, from is not describing published. It's not "be published from", it's "published, from". Since (native speaker gut check here) "published" doesn't take "from", the "published Tuesday" phrase reads as a parenthetical, and that it might have been better punctuated:

A report published Tuesday, from Angus Armstrong and Monique Ebell of the National Institute of Economic and Social Research, a private think tank, estimates...

But doing so would have betrayed just how many parentheticals were snuck in there (a stylistic problem I sympathize with, being as I am so very prone to it).

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