The EconomistFebruary 22nd 2020 31 Contents continues overleafContents
The world this week
7 A summary of political
and business newsLeaders
11 Big tech
A $2trn bull run
12 Student debt
Getting the maths right
12 The Bundesbank and
the ECB
Couples therapy
14 Britain’s legal system
Johnson v the judges
16 Climate philanthropy
The great Bezos giveawayLetters
22 On Clayton Christensen,
Bernie Sanders, puberty
blockers, private equity,
police, China, sad songsBriefing
24 The Philippines
The unacceptable face
of democracySpecial report:
The data economy
Mirror worlds
After page 44United States
27 Twilight of the moderates
28 Bloomberg enters the fray
29 Trump’s approval ratings
29 How to fight anti-vaxxers
30 Bankrupt Boy Scouts
32 The case of the kidney
32 Gentrification in
Washington, DC
34 LexingtonThe other war
on migrantsThe Americas
35 Uruguay’s next president
36 Pipeline protests in
CanadaAsia
37 Japan’s wilting economy
38 The end of an Aussie icon
39 Marriage in Pakistan
39 A disputed election in
Afghanistan
40 BanyanMandarin v
dialects in SingaporeChina
41 The war against the virus
42 Twittering diplomats
44 ChaguanWorkers, stuck
in their villagesMiddle East & Africa
45 America’s Africa policy
46 Who votes in Africa
47 Delivering letters in Congo
47 South Sudan’s conflict
48 Jews in Egypt
50 Arab states and the IMFCharlemagnePoland is
repeating the mistakes of
other European countries,
page 55On the cover
Investors think the techlash
is over. That judgment is
premature: leader,page 11.
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 61
- How to prepare for a
pandemicExperts predict that
covid-19 will spread more
widely; the world is getting
ready,page 59 - Shoot-to-kill in the
PhilippinesPresident Rodrigo
Duterte’s bloody war on drugs
has done nothing to dent his
popularity. But does he have
anything else to offer? Briefing,
page 24 - 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 69. Why the
Bundesbank and the ECB should
make up before the next
recession hits: leader,page 12 - 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,
page 75