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6 Contents The EconomistNovember 28th 2020

Volume 437 Number 9222

Europe

43 The Sweden Democrats

44 Swedish gang violence

45 Sicily and EU cash

45 European defence rows

46 Populist Polish pop

47 CharlemagneNewtonian

Europe

Britain

49 Public spending

50 Potholes

51 Vaccine roll-out

52 Making farms greener

54 BagehotRishi Sunak

International

55 Exams and covid-

Business

57 The crowds business

59 A new biblio-behemoth

59 Fading Black Friday

60 Baidu and bots

60 The diversity industry

61 Bartleby Winter morale

62 Schumpeter Europe’s

climate centurion

Finance & economics

63 Christine Lagarde

64 Janet Yellen at the

Treasury

65 Buttonwood M&A

66 The Fed-Treasury spat

66 Debt collectors in China

67 Hawala money transfers

68 Free exchangeCredit

gluts

Science & technology

69 Another covid-19 vaccine

70 A solar autoclave

72 Fossil shark nurseries

72 Car seats and birth rates

74 The death of Arecibo

Books & arts

75 Asia’s revolutionaries

76 Ian McGuire’s new novel

77 An elegy for the whale

77 Mozart’s genius

78 JohnsonAverage Joe

Economic & financial indicators

80 Statisticson 42 economies

Graphic detail

81 WhyEurope’ssecondlockdownsareworking

Obituary

82 Jan Morris, journalist, essayist and historian