8 Contents The Economist December 4th 2021
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Volume 441 Number 9274
Europe
51 Spain and migrants
52 Spanish accents
53 Beefing up Ukraine’s army
53 Nord Stream
54 Italy’s next president
55 Charlemagne The eu’s
Global Gateway
Britain
56 Conversion therapy
57 When spooks speak
58 BagehotJordan Peterson
and the lobster
International
59 Tussles at Interpol
Business
61 Asia’s tech landscape
62 Twitter’s founder leaves
63 BartlebyThe once and
future office
64 China’s celeb crackdown
64 Christmas chart toppers
69 Intellectual property
70 SchumpeterA shakeup
at j&j
Finance & economics
71 China’s Omicronomics
72 Emerging markets
74 Carbon pricing
74 India and bond indices
75 Buttonwood Have spacs
cleaned up?
76 Norway’s oil fund
78 Free exchangePolicing
stablecoins
Science & technology
79 Random numbers
80 Water’s arrival on Earth
81 Perovskite phone screens
81 Hybrid helicopters
82 Trypanosomes and bees
Books & arts
83 India's contested
archaeology
84 Middle Eastern Christians
85 Paul McCartney’s memoir
85 A forgotten 18thcentury
war
86 Greta Garbo’s mystique
Economic & financial indicators
88 Statistics on 42 economies
Graphic detail
89 The gulag's surprising legacy
Obituary
90 Stephen Sondheim, transformer of American musicals
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