经济学人89:嗨,去野外散个步吧

Books and Arts; Book Review; New fiction from Japan; 文艺；书评；来自日本的新小说； Hey babe, take a walk on the wild side; 嗨，去野外散个步吧； A black cat, two moons and a host of nocturnal little people populate Haruki Mur

经济学人133:网络战争 数字厄运

CYBER sounds scary. Cyber-criminals can empty your bank account; cyberterrorists are the stuff of Hollywood thrillers. Cyber-espionage involves stealing state secrets or intellectual property. You do not have to understand how computers work to be wo

经济学人:苏格兰可再生能源崛起 或因独立遭受重击

Britain Renewable energy in Scotland 英国 苏格兰的可再生能源之路 Caution to the wind 小心风力 How independence might threaten one of the SNPs favourite industries 独立是否会威胁苏格兰民族党的支柱产业之一 Twenty mi

经济学人:网球名将莎拉波娃未通过兴奋剂检测

The British government has promised to pay the French utility company up to 92.50 per megawatt hour (three times the current wholesale price) for its output. 英国政府答应支付法国电力集团高达92.5英镑/兆瓦小时的电力价格（这是

经济学人:疫苗 及时一针(上)

International Vaccination A jab in time 国际 疫苗及时一针 Some Western countries have lower vaccination rates than poor parts of Africa. Anti-vaxxers are not the main culprits 与非洲贫困地区相比，部分西方国家的疫苗接种率更

经济学人:疫苗 及时一针(下)

Some outbreaks in eastern Europe have started in communities of Roma (gypsies). 东欧的某些疾病爆发于罗马（吉普赛人）的社区， Members of this poor and ostracised minority are shunned by health workers and often go unvaccinated. 这

经济学人:​一周要闻 制药巨头瓦兰特四面楚歌 苹果公司的悲喜交加

The world this week-Business The saga at Valeant rumbled on 本周经济要闻 加拿大制药公司瓦兰特的故事仍在继续。 Michael Pearson decided to quit as chief executive of the troubled Canadian drugmaker. 该公司如今深陷困境，执

经济学人:​一周要闻 国际足联14年首亏前主席工资遭公开 保时捷高管获无罪开释

Football's governing body, FIFA, posted its first annual loss since 2002, citing increased development expenses and higher competition costs. 足球主管机构国际足联报告公布了其自2002年以来的首次年度亏损，亏损主要由上涨的

经济学人:一周要闻 三菱汽车油耗测试造假股价一度跳楼 欧盟反垄断斗争开辟新战线

The world this week-Business 本周经济要闻 The European Union opened up a new front in its antitrust battle with Google by accusing the company of using the dominant position of its Android operating system in the smartphone market to limit comp

经济学人:一周要闻 欧洲中央银行将停发500欧元大钞

The world this week-Business Europe's big banks followed the trend of their American counterparts with generally dismal first-quarter earnings. 本周经济要闻 欧洲大银行追随美国大银行走势，第一季度总体收益呈现低迷状态。

经济学人:一周要闻 苹果在中国商标权诉讼中败诉 法员工因工作无聊向老板索赔

The torrent of mergers in the health-care industry kept flowing. 卫生保健行业的合并计划接连不断。 IMS Health and Quintiles agreed to combine in a 9 billion transaction that will integrate the wide range of data services they provide t

经济学人:一周要闻 印度经济增长迅猛 沙特为优步提供35亿美元融资

Yusuf Alireza unexpectedly quit as chief executive of Noble Group, Asia's biggest commodities-trading firm. 亚洲最大商品贸易商来宝集团（Noble Group）首席执行官优素福?阿里(Yusuf Alireza)意外宣布离职。 Noble, which is ba

经济学人:土耳其能与德国"联姻" 双重国籍该如何对待?

Europe Dual citizenship in Germany 德国 双重国籍在德国 Jus sanguinis revisited 血统主义死灰复燃？ How not to treat people with more than one passport 怎样不来对待拥有多重国籍的人 The case of a woman from Hanau, in Hess

经济学人:鸟类数量锐减 是天灾还是人为?

Britain Bird numbers Out of the woods 英国 鸟类数量 离开树林 Good news on the bird populationbut not for everyone 鸟类数量的捷报但并非对所有人 British birdwatchers are used to bad news. House sparrow numbers have fallen from a

经济学人:公司理论:协议是怎样构成的(2)

One insight from the literature is that a tightly specified contract can have perverse outcomes. 一种来自文学的深刻见解是，有严格规定的合约可能带来事与愿违的结果。 If teachers are paid according to test results, they

经济学人:公司理论:科斯集结令(5)

When output is the result of a team effort, it is hard to put the necessary tasks out to the market. 当产出是团队努力的结果时，把必要的任务交与市场很难。 That is because it is tricky to measure the contribution of each membe

经济学人:公司理论:科斯集结令(4)

Spot markets cover most transactions. 现货市场涵盖了大多数交易。 Once money is exchanged for goods, the deal is completed. 一旦货币被换成商品，交易即告完成。 The transaction is simple: one party wants, another supplies. 这

经济学人:公司理论:科斯集结令(3)

In 1991 Coase was awarded the Nobel prize for economics, largely on the strength of these two papers. 1991年，主要是因为这两篇论文的力量，科斯荣获了诺贝尔经济学奖。 But as late as 1972, he lamented that The nature of the

经济学人:公司理论:科斯集结令(2)

A well-defined task can easily be put out to the market, where a contractor is paid a fixed sum for doing it. 定义明确的任务可以被轻轻松松地交于市场。在那里，签约人被付给一笔固定的钱来完成这项任务。 The fir

经济学人:公司理论:科斯集结令(1)

Briefing 概述 The theory of the firm: Coase call 公司理论：科斯集结令 If markets are so good at directing resources, why do firms exist? 如果市场这么擅长于指挥资源，公司是为什么而存在呢？ The first in our series o