The Economist UK - 14.03.2020

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Contents

The world this week

5 A summary of political

and business news

Leaders

9 Covid-

The politics of pandemics

10 Financial markets

V is for vicious

10 Russia

Vlad the indefinite

12 Latin America

How to reform Chile

13 JPMorgan Chase

Jamie Dimon: mission

accomplished

Letters

14 On Bernie Sanders, green

technology, Mexico,

Chinese MBAs, facial

expressions

Briefing

17 The covid-19 virus

Anatomy of a killer

Technology Quarterly:

Personalised medicine

Populations of one

After page 42

Britain

20 The NHS and covid-

21 Britain’s budget

22 Scottish politics

22 House names

24 A tech startup boom

24 Policing the police

25 Gardener wars

26 BagehotThe meaning of

conservatism

Europe

29 Putin’s power grab

30 Local elections in France

31 Germany’s pay gap

32 CharlemagneBorder

brutality

Middle East & Africa

33 The politics of cheap oil

34 Tough choices in Tanzania

34 Banning bikes in Nigeria

35 Viral Iran

36 Lebanon defaults

United States

37 Uncle Sam v covid-

39 The virus and the

economy

39 Berning out

40 Green Texas

41 Country cops

42 LexingtonThe Trump

campaign

The Americas

43 Reinventing Chile

Free exchange

Throughout history,

pandemics have had

profound economic

effects, page 70

On the cover

All governments will struggle
with the pandemic. Some will
struggle more than others:
leader,page 9. Many are
watching Italy’s efforts and
deciding whether to follow suit,
page 53. America does not look
ready, page 37. Britain’s
National Health Service is well
suited to dealing with crises.
But it is overstretched, page 20.
How SARS-CoV-2 causes
covid-19, and how it might be
stopped: briefing, page 17. Foot
traffic has cratered in cities with
big coronavirus outbreaks:
Graphic detail,page 81

• Vlad the indefiniteThe
  Russian president reluctantly
  agrees to stay on for another 16
  years, if that’s what his people
  want: leader,page 10and page 29


• Why Chile needs a new
  constitutionIt offers a path out
  of anger and disorder: leader,
  page 12and page 43


• The house that Jamie Dimon
  builtShould Wall Street’s most
  celebrated boss call it a day?
  Leader,page 13and briefing
  page 61

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