THE ECONOMIST Vol.438 n°9234 08/05/2021 Govcoins: The digital currencies that will transform finance/ Special report: The future of banking THE ECO 2021/05/08

"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