The Economist - 12 August 2017 by The Economist instant download

The Economist - 12 August 2017 by The Economist instant download

Articles in this issue:

Politics this week

Business this week

KAL's cartoon

The death of the internal combustion engine: Roadkill

South Africa: Long walk to cronyism

Gender diversity and free speech: Not evil, just wrong

Russia and NATO: Dangerous games

University finances: An English solution

Letters: Letters to the editor

Batteries: Electrifying everything

Attitudes to immigration: Still yearning

College admissions: After affirmative action

Labour unions: One and done

Prisons: The corrections

Health care: The expanding universal

Lexington: Centre of attention

Charter cities in Honduras: A shadowy experiment

Chile: Term endings

Ecuador: Breaking Glas

America and North Korea: Tone Defcon

Tokyo’s vanishing bath-houses: Troubled waters

Singapore’s first family: Bad blood

Muslim minorities (1): Trampled by elephants

Muslim minorities (2): Mantras of hate

Banyan: Phoney war

Rural Hong Kong: Ding-dong

Tourism: Love yurts

Kenya’s disputed election: The tinderbox and the ballot

Scions behaving badly: Lots not to like

Iraqi Kurdistan: Inching towards Kexit

Hizbullah: When the guns come home

Israeli politics: Prime suspect

Freedom for the Faroes: Fishing for liberty

War games in Europe: Mr Putin flexes his muscles

A Croatian firm’s collapse: Chain reaction

Drought in the Mediterranean: Nor any drop to drink

Charlemagne: France v Italy

Higher education: University challenge

Measuring inflation: A can of worms

Manchester after the bombing: Standing apart

Tree fights in Sheffield: Suburban warfare

Bagehot: Peak Corbyn

The global techlash: Chaining giants

Work culture in Silicon Valley: You’re fired

Israeli business: Startup and leave nation

Fox’s bid for Sky: What the Fox said

Helen Alexander: The best of bosses

The business of airports: Losing altitude

Schumpeter: Suspicious minds

The Fed’s next chair: Rate race

Buttonwood: Not as smart as they think

Banking in Australia: Cuckoo in the nest

Dutch disease: The Nigerian complaint

American infrastructure investment: Idle shovels

Risky sovereign bonds: Still crazy after falling yields

Football finance: Shooting stars

Overcapacity and undercapacity: Glutology

Nuclear energy: Putting to sea

Hypersonic travel: Hot stuff

Prizes for puns: The quip and the dread

Writer, hero, crank: Wild American

“Jane Eyre”: The facts of fiction

New fiction: In a foreign land

Autism: Rise of the autie-biography

History in Lebanon: Empty halls and empty spaces

Jeanne Moreau: Life as defiance

Output, prices and jobs

Trade, exchange rates, budget balances and interest rates

The Economist commodity-price index

The Economist poll of forecasters, August averages

Markets

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