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4 Contents The EconomistMay 16th 2020

Volume 435 Number 9194

Britain

44 How others see us

45 Toothache in a pandemic

46 Migrant care-workers

46 Propping up the economy

International

47 Crime during the

pandemic

Climate brief

49 The global impact

Business

51 Rewriting Chapter 11

52 America’s profit warning

53 European defaulters

53 China’s Adidas

54 BartlebyMBA mauling

55 Austerity in Silicon Valley

56 SchumpeterCovid and

creativedestruction

Briefing

57 Globalisation set back

59 The challenge for

business

Finance & economics

63 Can travel bubbles work?

64 Turkey in trouble

65 Geopolitics and securities

66 Crisis-fighting at the ECB

67 Free exchangeCould

inequalityfall?

Science & technology

69 Health data and privacy

70 Great apes and covid-

71 Wirelessly charging cars

72 Wind-turbine efficiency

Books & arts

73 Political warfare

74 Stories of south London

75 JohnsonZoom fatigue

76 Home Entertainment

French television dramas

76 Design a board game

77 PerspectivesConfinement

Economic & financial indicators

80 Statisticson 42 economies

Graphic detail

81 Travelhubsareathighriskofa secondcovid-19 wave

Obituary

82 Eavan Boland, a poet of the ordinary