The EconomistFebruary 22nd 2020 31 Contents continues overleafContents
The world this week
6 A summary of political
and business newsLeaders
9 Big tech
A $2trn bull run
10 Student debt
Getting the maths right
10 The Bundesbank and
the ECB
Couples therapy
11 Britain’s legal system
Johnson v the judges
12 Climate philanthropy
The great Bezos giveawayLetters
14 On Clayton Christensen,
Bernie Sanders, puberty
blockers, private equity,
police, China, sad songsBriefing
16 The Philippines
The unacceptable face
of democracySpecial report:
The data economy
Mirror worlds
After page 44Britain
19 Judging the judges
20 Brexit and the Elgin
marbles
22 New immigration rules
22 Brexit negotiations
23 Trade-union feuds
23 Ministerial churn
24 Woke members’ clubs
25 BagehotThe imperial
prime ministerEurope
26 Macroneconomics
27 Sexting in Paris
27 China v Sweden
28 A $50bn Russian verdict
29 Orthodox schism
29 Injustice in Istanbul
30 CharlemagnePoland,
land of immigrantsUnited States
31 Twilight of the moderates
32 Bloomberg enters the fray
33 Trump’s approval ratings
33 How to fight anti-vaxxers
34 Bankrupt Boy Scouts
35 The case of the kidney
35 Gentrification in
Washington, DC
36 LexingtonThe other war
on migrantsThe Americas
37 Uruguay’s next president
38 Pipeline protests in
CanadaMiddle East & Africa
40 America’s Africa policy
41 Who votes in Africa
42 Delivering letters in Congo
42 South Sudan’s conflict
43 Jews in Egypt
44 Arab states and the IMFCharlemagnePoland is
repeating the mistakes of
other European countries,
page 30On the cover
Investors think the techlash
is over. That judgment is
premature: leader,page 9.
A deluge of data is giving rise
to a new economy. How will it
work? See our special report,
after page 44. When economies
change, so does the way they
endure recessions. How will
the next one look?Page 54
- How to prepare for a
pandemicExperts predict that
covid-19 will spread more
widely; the world is getting
ready,page 52 - Boris v the judgesThe
government would like to
restrict the power and
independence of the judiciary.
It shouldn’t: leader,page 11.
Pruning the judges’ powers
would be tricky, page 19 - Why the Bundesbank should
relaxGermany ’s central bank
once reigned over Europe. Now
it finds itself caught between
doveish ECB policies and a
public that is mistrustful of
them, page 61. Why the
Bundesbank and the ECB should
make up before the next
recession hits: leader,page 10 - Progress in the search for ET
The premier meeting of
America’s scientists featured
the rhizosphere, human
emotions, mapping body
cells and the search for
extraterrestrial intelligence,
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