The Economist - USA (2020-05-16)

The EconomistMay 16th 2020 3

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Contents

The world this week

5 A summary of political

andbusinessnews

Leaders

7 The world economy

Goodbye globalisation

8 The EU’s bad crisis

On the blink

10 Escaping the lockdown

First, do no harm

10 Unemployment

Reopenandshut

12 HydropowerinAsia

Watertorture

Letters

14 Onreopeningschools,

golf,religion,StHelena,

underpants

Briefing

15 Europeunderstrain

Searchingformeaning

United States

19 The jobless market

20 Social immobility

21 Donald Trump’s taxes

22 Last call for Irish pubs

23 The misrule of law

24 LexingtonMike

Pompeo’sfollowership

The Americas

25 Bolivia in limbo

26 An amphibious farce in

Venezuela

27 BelloRecalling the

Shining Path

Asia

29 The shrinking Mekong

30 A Sino-Indian punch-up

31 Adultery in Taiwan

31 South Korea’s new cluster

32 BanyanMilitarising Sri

Lanka

China

33 Mental health

34 The missing lama

35 ChaguanCoffin town

Middle East & Africa

36 Covid-19 in Africa

37 Africa’s ballot-dodging

38 Ethiopia’s crisis

38 A family feud in Syria

39 Ramadan television

Europe

40 France leaves lockdown

41 Sweden and covid-

41 Counting Macedonians

42 Naval strategy in the Arctic

43 Charlemagne Kraftwerk’s

Europe

LexingtonThe secretary

of state is confusing

global leadership with

barking for his master,

page 24

On the cover

A more nationalistic and
self-sufficient era beckons.
It won’t be richer—or safer:
leader, page 7. Pre-existing
conditions made covid-19’s
blow to world trade even more
damaging, page 57. There is a
limit to how much businesses
can prepare for awful
surprises, page 59. Could travel
zones offer a route to
economic recovery? Page 63.
Lessons in globalisation, from
the small Chinese town that
makes half of Japan’s coffins:
Chaguan,page 35

• On the blink—the EU’s bad
  crisisBy failing to face up to its
  difficulties, the European Union
  only makes them worse: leader,
  page 8. The covid-19 pandemic
  has shown just how little
  European countries agree on the
  purpose of the EU: briefing,
  page 15


• Covid nostraThe pandemic is
  providing organised crooks with
  fresh opportunities,page 47


• Starting a business in a slump
  Is now a good time for
  entrepreneurs? Schumpeter,
  page 56

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