The Econmist - USA (2021-11-06)

The Economist November 6th 2021 3

Contents

Contents continues overleaf

On the cover

The world this week

6 A summary of political

and business news

Leaders

9 American politics

One year on

10 Markets and inflation

The bond traders stir

10 Government in Britain

Are rules for losers?

12 Climate change

Green finance

14 Ethiopia

Act now to avoid carnage

Letters

16 On Dave Chappelle, Spain,

lorry drivers, carbon

taxes, trees, our nft

auction

Briefing

18 Social mobility

in America

Stuck in place

United States

21 The maths wars

22 A Democratic shellacking

24 scotus, abortion and guns

26 Guns and the supernatural

27 Portrait of a detransitioner

28 LexingtonIvy League

populism

The Americas

29 Brazil as climate pariah

30 Telenovela trends

32 BelloA new hard right

Asia

33 India’s deadly air

34 South Korea’s latest fad

35 Violence in Bangladesh

35 After Japan’s election

36 BanyanThe blessed

resource curse

China

37 Rewriting party history

38 The Pentagon on the pla

Middle East & Africa

39 Ethiopia’s rebels

threaten the capital

40 The ancstumbles

42 Paying for forests

43 Western Sahara heats up

Democrats face a calamity
unless the party can distance
itself from the new, new left:
leader,page 9.Joe Biden’s
social­spending package is not
grand enough to repair the
American Dream: briefing,
page 18.Democrats suffer a
rout at the polls,page 22.
Virginia’s governor­elect:
Lexington,page 28

The maths wars How teaching
times tables became another
victim of America’s political
divide, page 21

Green finance: behind the big
numbersWhy the net-zero
pledges of financial firms won’t
save the world: leader, page 12.If
the planet loves forests, it should
price their carbon, page 54.How
cement may yet help slow global
warming, page 69

Ethiopia gazes into the abyss
As rebels march on the capital,
persecution accelerates: leader,
page 14,and analysis, page 39

Why bosses love the office
Blame a mixture of carpets,
caring and conditioning:
Bartleby,page 61

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BagehotThe

Conservatives are

building a bigger, busier

state, from raising taxes

to stoking culture wars,

page 53

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