2021-05-17 所屬欄目:經濟學人雙語版|經濟學人下載

Leaders
社論Long covid
新冠病毒的長期并發癥And now for the aftershock
余波未平Evidence is mounting that long covid is a real threat to global health
越來越多的證據表明，新冠病毒

2021-05-17 所屬欄目:經濟學人雙語版|經濟學人下載

Happy because, in that mysterious office, he was carrying on the biggest Ponzi scheme in history. It was simplicity itself. The money sent to him by new investors was used to pay e

2021-05-14 所屬欄目:經濟學人雙語版|經濟學人下載

Obituary
訃告Bernard Madoff
伯納德·麥道夫Just one big lie
驚世騙局Bernard Madoff, deviser of the biggest Ponzi scheme in history, died in prison on April 14th, aged 82
史上最大

2021-05-14 所屬欄目:經濟學人雙語版|經濟學人下載

Yet elsewhere the arguments in “How to Love Animals” are arresting. After pondering which sea creatures feel pain, Mr Mance rules that mussels, clams and oysters can be eaten in

2021-05-14 所屬欄目:經濟學人雙語版|經濟學人下載

This suggests that the second factor, fear, may be important in explaining America's shortage of staff. Nearly 4m people are not looking for work "because of the coronavirus pa

2021-05-13 所屬欄目:經濟學人雙語版|經濟學人下載

The researchers hope this biotechnological wizardry will help with two goals. One is to shed light on the complicated process of embryological development, which might eventually l

2021-05-13 所屬欄目:經濟學人雙語版|經濟學人下載

Books & arts 文藝板塊Book review 書評Interspecies relations 種間關系Creature discomforts 動物的煩惱How to Love Animals. By Henry Mance.《如何愛動物》。作者：亨利·曼斯Cat vid

2021-05-13 所屬欄目:經濟學人雙語版|經濟學人下載

Labour shortages in America
美國的勞動力短缺Help wanted
急聘Why workers are hard to find, even though unemployment is high
為什么在失業率高的情況下，工人還是很難找到The pandemic

2021-05-12 所屬欄目:經濟學人雙語版|經濟學人下載

Lyft has followed Uber in giving up the development of autonomous vehicles. The ride-hailing company sold its self-driving-cars unit to Toyota. It will be integrated into the Japan

2021-05-12 所屬欄目:經濟學人雙語版|經濟學人下載

The inability to share data is forcing advertisers to come up with new ruses. One is to bypass rules banning data transfers between ad-tech companies by consolidating. In February

2021-05-11 所屬欄目:經濟學人雙語版|經濟學人下載

For Facebook, which knows more about its users’ interests than about their shopping needs, Apple’s changes are more worrying. In August it warned they might reduce revenues at it

2021-05-11 所屬欄目:經濟學人雙語版|經濟學人下載

The researchers began with 132 embryos of the crab-eating macaque. Six days after fertilisation these were injected with human extended pluripotent stem cells, which can develop in

2021-05-10 所屬欄目:經濟學人雙語版|經濟學人下載

The world this week 一周國際要聞Business 商業版塊In a speech to a joint session of Congress, Joe Biden laid out his American Families Plan, the most ambitious attempt to expand soc

2021-05-10 所屬欄目:經濟學人雙語版|經濟學人下載

Hungary passed a law to hand control of state universities to foundations. These are likely to be run by ruling-party supporters, who can appoint their successors. This arrangement

2021-05-10 所屬欄目:經濟學人雙語版|經濟學人下載

The world this week
本周國際要聞Politics
政治版塊India’s second wave of COVID-19 gained strength. The number of infections detected hit new records, with some 380,000 on April

2021-05-08 所屬欄目:經濟學人雙語版|經濟學人下載

Stronger privacy protections may make their ads less effective. In 2018 the EU imposed its General Data Protection Regulation (GDPR) and America’s most-populous state introduced t

2021-05-07 所屬欄目:經濟學人雙語版|經濟學人下載

Business
商業版塊Digital advertising
數字廣告Flying blind
兩眼一摸黑Apple’s privacy rules force marketers to find new ways to target ads
蘋果的隱私規則迫使營銷商在精準投放廣告

2021-05-06 所屬欄目:經濟學人雙語版|經濟學人下載

On the other side are the likes of Asmaa Zanaty, a teacher who can’t believe her colleagues turn away students too poor to pay. Her beloved, Mazen, a workers’ representative, say

2021-05-06 所屬欄目:經濟學人雙語版|經濟學人下載

Books & arts
文藝版塊Book review
書評Egyptian fiction
埃及小說A general in his labyrinth
陷入迷途的將軍The Republic of False Truths. By Alaa Al Aswany
《虛假真理共和國》，作者

2021-05-06 所屬欄目:經濟學人雙語版|經濟學人下載

Experimental biology
實驗生物學Fantastic beasts and how to make them
神獸以及如何創造神獸Researchers have created embryos from a mix of monkey cells and human ones
研究人員創造出

2021-05-06 所屬欄目:經濟學人雙語版|經濟學人下載

The debt burden and maturity profile only get you so far. There are three other influences that investors might usefully bear in mind. The first is commodity prices. The collapse i

2021-05-06 所屬欄目:經濟學人雙語版|經濟學人下載

In a corner were the biographies that had been written about him. And on a table by a window stood an array of family photographs in black and white. Lots of relatives, but no chil

2021-05-06 所屬欄目:經濟學人雙語版|經濟學人下載

Productivity can also be unleashed by broadening access to opportunities. Many rich-world labour markets are divided between the high- and low-skilled. That is tolerable so long as

2021-05-06 所屬欄目:經濟學人雙語版|經濟學人下載

The long-term future of work has changed for the better this year because it has become more digitised. Remote working is easing the bottleneck of expensive housing in thriving cit

2021-05-06 所屬欄目:經濟學人雙語版|經濟學人下載

The Gremlin-mothership arrangement is distinguished by its scale. But several smaller versions of the underlying idea are also in development. One is being put together by General