The Economist UK - 30.11.2019

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Contents

The world this week

10 A summary of political

and business news

Leaders

15 Egalitarianism

Inequality illusions

16 Democracy and the web

Policing propaganda

17 Hong Kong

A clarion call

17 The twilight of the WTO

The umpire expires

18 Climate and energy

A bid for better batteries

Letters

20 On diversity, Palm Beach,

America’s army, AI

writers, Emmanuel

Macron

Briefing

23 Inequality

Measuring the 1%

25 Wealth inequality in

Sweden

In the rich man’s world

Britain

27 The expanding state...

28 ...and who will pay for it

28 Religion and politics

29 Swing seats: Warwick

30 Scotland’s 3D election

30 Britain’s biggest seat

31 The campaign in quotes

32 BagehotRedistributing

power

Europe

33 American tactical nukes

34 Turkey deports IS fighters

35 The murder haunting

Malta

35 The new Commission

36 Femicide in France

36 Nutella worries Italians

37 Charlemagne

Post-Merkel syndrome

United States

39 Mr Trump and his generals

40 Michael Bloomberg’s run

41 Sanctions galore

43 Big tech and political ads

43 Black Friday dreams

44 LexingtonImpeachment

endgames

The Americas

45 Fighting corruption

46 Cuba and the dollar

48 BelloThe street and the

politicians

Middle East & Africa

49 Darfur’s peace prospects

50 Fight club in Ghana

51 Likud reconsiders Bibi

51 Repression in Egypt

52 Yemen’s food fight

ButtonwoodDo not write

off the macro hedge-fund

manager just yet, page 7 4

On the cover

Inequality could be lower than
you think. But there is still
plenty to do to make
economies fairer: leader,
page 15. As inequality rises
further up the political agenda,
some economists are
rethinking the numbers:
briefing, page 23. What would
millennial socialists do with
power?Page 80

• Brassed off with Donald
  TrumpAmerica’s president falls
  out with the military
  establishment he once wooed,
  page 39


• China’s forgotten migrant
  workersThe people who made
  this country an industrial giant
  face a bleak retirement:
  Chaguan,page 60


• Pushing the limits of luxury
  Europe’s richest man tests the
  limits of the conglomerate
  model,page 63


• Alibaba’s Amazon envy
  The thinking behind its Hong
  Kong listing: Schumpeter,
  page 68