"THE ECONOMIST"
MAGAZINE ANGLAIS, DU 8 MAI 2021 VOL.439 N°9244, 92 PAGES, CELEBRE REVUE DE REFERENCE, EN ANGLAIS. Très bon état
In this issue:
The world this week 2 pages
Leaders: The rise of e-money: Why govcoins matter 1 page
_BRIEFING:
The creator economy, serfing the web: Social-media platforms used to get most of their content for free. Now creators command a price, and online power is shifting 3 pages
_EUROPE:
Spain’s indignados: from rage to disillusion 2 pages
Germany’s climate goals/ Ireland and Brexit/ Terrorists in France Alcohol-free Turkey 3 pages
Charlemagne: The anti-Orban 1 page
_BRITAIN:
London v the government: relations have worsened. That affects the whole country 2 pages
Body-part shortage/ Fish fight with France 1 page
_MIDDLE EAST & AFRICA:
Somaliland at 30: An unrecognised state wins friends abroad but faces problems at home 2 pages
Cleaning cooking/ Making vaccines in Africa/ Free to quit in Qatar/ A critical fight in Yemen/ How autocrats pick their opponents 3 pages
_UNITED STATES:
Permitless-carry gun laws: The firearms free-for-oil 2 pages
Trump and Facebook/ Home-ownership booms/ Waiting around for stuff/ Trade in tech with China 2 pages
Unsolved murders in St-Louis: crime without punishment 1 page
Lexington: The founding fish, a shad state of affaires (Potomac river) 1 page
_SPECIAL REPORT:
The future of banking:
Fewer banks or none at all? 2 pages
Banks v big tech: Regime change 2 pages
Debt v equity: intangible capitalism 1 page
Public v private money: will banks survive the transition to a new monetary system? 2 pages
Monetary sovereignty: digital money may pose a new threat to dollar hegemony 1 page
Money on my mind: the transition from banking may threaten privacy and sovereignty 1 page
_THE AMERICAS:
El Salvador: Bukele’s bulldozer 2 pages
Mexico City’s metro/ Protests in Colombia/ Fishy legal problems 1 page
_ASIA:
Politics and covid-19 in India: paper tiger 2 pages
City administration: Mumbai v Delhi/ Home decor in South Korea/ Charity in the Philippines/ Bangladesh’s water woes/ Australia’s China debate 3 pages
_CHINA:
Propaganda: The new scold war 2 pages
Chaguan: Resistance to China is not futile 1 page
_INTERNATIONAL:
The industrialization of cyber-crime 2 pages
_BUSINESS:
Bumbling Berkshire: growing questions over the governance of the worlds’s most famous conglomerate 2 pages
Craftmanship/ Waiving vaccine patents/ Ageing consumers/ Internet gatekeepers 3 pages
Schumpeter: PE turns PC, losing the mystique 1 page
_FINANCE & ECONOMICS:
China’s digital money: The new yuan, a lot like the old yuan 2 pages
Cleaning up Greek banks/ Women and wealth/ The economics of prisons 3 pages
Free exchange: Escape from the city 1 page
_SCIENCE & TECHNOLOGY:
Back-ups for GPS: locking out the bad guys 2 pages
An early African burial/ The science of roadskills/ Diagnosing depression/ How to knit a road 2 pages
_BOOKS & ARTS:
Dostoyevsky on stage 2 pages
A double-agent's life 2/3 page
_GRAPHIC DETAIL:
Victorian-era pollution still shapes English cities 1 page
_OBITUARY:
Michael Collins, the man who didn’t walk on the Moon 1 page