The Economist - 9 December 2017 by The Economist instant download
Articles in this issue:
Politics this week
Business this week
KAL's cartoon
South Africa: The corruption of South Africa
Ukraine: Don’t give up
Tax reform: Twice bankrupt
Peace in the Middle East: This year in Jerusalem
The battle in AI: Giant advantage
The World Trade Organisation: Disaster management
On Zimbabwe, Northern Ireland, carbon-dioxide emissions, bank robbers: Letters to the editor
South Africa: Captured state
Business in South Africa: Global firms and the Gupta connection
Tax reform in context: What a difference three decades makes
Public lands: Shrinking ears, smaller stairs
Alabama’s special election: Less is Moore
Child brides: State of the unions
Foreign policy: Relative moralism
Lexington: The limits of the law
Honduras’s election (1): Just talking about a revolution
Honduras’s election (2): Reasons to disbelieve
Canada and China: The lonely Mr Trudeau
Bello: A year without Fidel
Caste in Indian politics: Group think
Japan’s monarchy: Chrysanthemummification
Australian exports to China: Purchasing powder
Public transport in the Philippines: Jeep stakes
Banyan: Just one begum
A new branch of government: Who supervises the supervisors?
Public hygiene: Labour of lavs
Jerusalem: Capital gains
Language in Israel: Signs of improvement
Leadership in Africa: 48 shades of grey
Ethiopia: Nostalgia for the Derg
Arab international relations: The Gulf Backbiting Council
The war in Yemen: Shaken up
Turmoil in Ukraine: Revolution devolution
Arms control in Europe: A treaty in peril
Corruption in Turkey: Plot of gold
Russia: The Siberian bitcoin rush
Corsica: Drifting away
Russian sports doping: Drugged, out
Charlemagne: Little briar Merkel
The Brexit negotiations: False summit
The defence budget: Shoulder pips squeaking
The drugs market: Blowing up
Lower Brexpectations: Public attitudes
Labour’s fortunes: Polling in an age of magical thinking
Business: Dysfunctional families
Bagehot: Elevator malfunction
Islamic family law: Marriages of inconvenience
Islamic marriage in Canada: One is enough
Artificial intelligence: Battle of the brains
CVS Health buys Aetna: Doses of reality
Video games: Looting the punters
Foreign brand names in China: Found in translation
Rio Tinto: Ghost in the machine
Schumpeter: Walmart fights back
The World Trade Organisation: Situations vacant
China at the WTO: Market failure
Trade in Africa: Africa, unite!
Buttonwood: Keep dancing
Venezuela and oil prices: Christmas Caracas
Hedge funds and artificial intelligence: Return on AI
Contraceptives and girls’ education: School learning
Marijuana and banking in California: From cash to ash
Shareholder litigation: Laying down the law
Free exchange: Paying no mind
Artificial intelligence: Algorithm is gonna get you
Environmental engineering: Clean-up mussel
Gender in academia: Question time
DNA sequencing: A genome in the hand
Wise words: Books of the Year 2017
Books by Economist writers in 2017: What we wrote...
Ali Abdullah Saleh: Snake-in-chief
Output, prices and jobs
Trade, exchange rates, budget balances and interest rates
The Economist commodity-price index
The Economist poll of forecasters, December averages
Markets
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