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4 Contents The EconomistAugust 1st 2020

Volume 436 Number 9205

Europe

40 Italy’s windfall

41 Covid-19 resurgent

42 Turkey v Greece in the

Aegean

42 Turkey mourns a drag

artist

43 CharlemagneEuro crisis

(withguns)

Britain

44 An unequal land

46 Abandoned buildings

International

47 Migration after covid-

Business

50 The airline-industrial

complex

51 Bartleby Reopening

trade-offs

53 STAR firms go gangbusters

53 The e-bike boom

54 Schumpeter A GE

whodunnit

Finance & economics

56 Economic scars in

emerging markets

57 India’s banks

58 ButtonwoodThe SPAC

hack

59 Bridgewater’s woes

59 The dollar dips

59 Might the EU levy taxes?

60 Emmanuel Farhi

61 Free exchange

Automationandjobs

Science & technology

62 The million-mile battery

63 Better safety helmets

64 Cretaceous bacteria

Books & arts

65 Everyday beauty

66 Russian doping

67 Icelandic fiction

67 Debunking dodgy data

68 Home Entertainment

Ingmar Bergman’s plague

69 PerspectivesHygiene

Economic & financial indicators

72 Statisticson 42 economies

Graphic detail

73 Twitter’salgorithmappearstorewardinflammatory content

Obituary

74 Lázló Bogdán, the mayor who saved his village