The world this week 本周国际要闻 Business 经济 A sell-off in tech stocks led to the worst trading period for the Nasdaq since mid-March, at the start of the COVID-19 crisis. Over a few days the share prices of Amazon, Alphabet, Facebook and M...
Flood mitigation is essential. Yet though Japan and South Korea have few climate-change deniers, the sense that warming is a problem generated elsewhere has persisted for too long, says Ohbayashi Mika of the Renewable Energy Institute in Tokyo. That...
California burns every year. But amid a record-breaking heatwave, 2020 is the fieriest year yet. 加利福尼亚每年都在燃烧。但在一场破纪录的热浪中,2020年是迄今为止最火热的一年。 As The Economist went to press, more...
He kept his usual neat record of what was done to resisters. About 20 whippings with fine rattan. 20-30 whippings with electrical wire. Stuffing with water. He claimed later that he had hated running the prison. He had tried to get sent to the Indust...
On September 8th Kim Jong Un, the Norths dictator, assembled his top brass to review the damage a week earlier from the second of the typhoons, Maysak, which destroyed 2,000 homes and washed away 60km of roads and 57 bridges. As the meeting took plac...
During the pandemic, CMES such as Germany have generally had a more coherent strategy for containing the spread of the virus. 在疫情期间,CMES,如德国,通常有一套更协调一致的策略来遏制病毒的传播。 Lockdowns may not se...
Asia 亚洲板块 Banyan 榕树专栏 The new weather gods 新的气象神 Floods and storms force Japan and South Korea to think harder about climate change 洪水和风暴肆虐,日本和韩国被迫更加认真地思考气候变化问题 Senso-j...
Political economy is a discipline in which rigorous empirical testing is difficult. 政治经济学是一门难以进行严格实证检验的学科。 Scholars are rarely presented with the kind of naturally occurring experiments which crop up in oth...
The book ends on an optimistic note. Populist demagogues eventually lose power because they are hopeless at governing. Four in ten wind up being indicted for corruption, by one count. Citizens get used to change: today American Muslims are as toleran...
The author is often amusing as well as illuminating. Genghis Khan was a vicious warlord, but his domestic policies would today open him up to accusations of being a politically correct, latte-drinking virtue signaller. The Mongols practised ethnic an...