The Economist [Fri, 05 Jan 2018] by calibre instant download

The Economist [Fri, 05 Jan 2018] by calibre instant download

Articles in this issue:

The world this week

KAL's cartoon

Neurotechnology: The next frontier

Peru: The pardoner’s tale

Protests in Iran: Berating the tyrants of Tehran

Education: Pupil power

American politics: In praise of state-ism

On China, Ben Carson, “Howard’s End”, meat, politics: Letters to the editor

Education in Pakistan: Stepping up

Congress: The polarising express

Life expectancy: Not great, again

Congress: Hell’s laundry list

High-tax states: Tax replanning

The Supreme Court and voting rights: Use it or lose it

Cannabis laws: California inhales

Peru: The presidential hostage

Emeralds in Colombia: Prospectors, barons and suits

Canada: Shaming and renaming

Religion in South-East Asia: Escalators to heaven

Feudalism in Pakistan: Quail, cotton and contumacy

Japan’s broadcaster: Snoringly boring

Child abuse in the Philippines: Caught in the web

Banyan: Peninsular wars

Internet controls: Virtual panic

The environment: Tusks, skins and waste recycling

Protests in Iran: When frustration boils over

Yemen: Qat wrenching

Yemen’s war: The balance shifts

Egyptian politics: Cometh the hour, cometh the ban

The undemocratic Republic of Congo: Never-ending term

Gambia: Waiting for Jammeh

Liberia: The new skipper

Italy: Their generation

Spain: Local difficulties

Russia: Cardboard Kremlin

Obesity in France: Body positive

Turkey’s economy: Firing on all cylinders

The National Health Service: A thinning front line

Train travel: Off the rails

Bagehot: Drama and drift

The world’s worst airports: The departure gates of hell

Brains and machines: Thought experiments

Non-invasive devices: Headache

Implants: Inside intelligence

Data processing: Translation required

Brain scan: Eberhard Fetz

Looking for serendipity: Grey matter, red tape

Business in South Korea: Diary of a sniper

Ant Financial and MoneyGram: Blocked transfer

Money-laundering in Canada: Snow-washing

Software-as-a-service: The tower of Benioff

Schumpeter: The year of the incumbent

Environmental economics in China: Towards a greener future

Buttonwood: Taking off the training wheels

Islamic finance: Sukuk and see

American banks and tax reform: Deferred gratification

MiFID 2: Day zero

Free exchange: Many happy returns

The search for MH370: Many scanners, very deep

The Richard Casement internship

Digital assistants: Losing face

Space debris: Junk hunting

History of physics: Clever calculator

Economics and dieting: Quantitative eating

University education: Three years and score

Japanese drumming: The kudos of Kodo

American fiction: Reading tea leaves

Johnson: Word-birth

Simonetta Puccini: O mio nonno caro

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