The Economist [Fri, 07 Aug 2020] by calibre instant download

The Economist [Fri, 07 Aug 2020] by calibre instant download

本期文章:

Politics this week

Business this week

KAL’s cartoon

Universities: The absent student

Lebanon: No way to run a country

Tech wars: Trumpian TikTok

Vaccine economics: A bigger dose

Gay rights: The world comes out

The dismal yet flexible science: When the facts change

Letters to the editor: On reopening schools, oil, French accents, Amazon, sports teams

Covid-19 and college: Uncanny University

Electing a president: Jarring

The postal service: Law of the letter

Hyperloops: Pipes of fancy

DC history: Without representation

Baseball returns: Strike two

Taxing and spending: From unthinkable to universal

Lexington: Channel-hopping

Argentina: Fighting on fewer fronts

Guyana and Suriname: Oil futures

Bello: Beyond the troika of tyranny

Hindu nationalism: India shrining

Australia and covid-19: Borderline cases

Corruption in Uzbekistan: Weirs and recriminations

Personal freedom in Thailand: Cold cuts

Banyan: Trojan democrat

Entertainment: Heady Hunan

The civil code: Thirty more days of hell

Lebanon: City in ruins

Mali: Fear and loathing in the Sahel

Prohibition in a pandemic: Tea-total

The pandemic in Africa: One million and not counting

Racism in Europe: See no evil

Open again: Genoa bridge reopens

Turkey: Sultan of censorship

Covid-19 in the Balkans: Not as stated

Charlemagne: Strandkörbe in place of sangria

Spain: The signal turns to red

Scottish independence: Is Caledonia Catalonia?

Covid-19 in Scotland: Independence fever

Food and trade: A pig of a problem

Planning reform: Weak foundations

Masks and culture: Made in the USA

John Hume, 1937-2020: A dove over Derry

Bagehot: The smell of rot

Coming out: Queer, there and everywhere

Corporate America: The trouble with TINA

Stockmarket indices: Inclusive growth

Semiconductors: Worth an arm and a leg

Microsoft and TikTok: Unproductivity puzzle

European business: Sverige AB v Deutschland AG

Bartleby: Called to account

Schumpeter: Dangerous curves ahead

Vaccine economics: More hard questions

Chinese finance: A dynamic duopoly

Banks’ earnings: Dud light

Pre-doctoral programmes: Selection effects

The IMF and the World Bank: Abandoning hope

Free exchange: Change for the dollar

A healthy dose of competition: From hospitality to hipsterism

Artificial intelligence: Bit-lit

Covid-19 testing: Dive in

Entomology: Parasites under pressure

Cookery: A good grilling

Museums and restitution: Legacies of violence

Johnson: The Greatest Phrases!

Climate change: A glacier’s pace

New American fiction: The girl next door

Home Entertainment: In the woodshed

Economic data, commodities and markets

Life in the time of corona: 90% economy, 120% gastronomy

Olivia de Havilland: The ingénue who roared

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