经济学人:意大利政治 社工贝卢斯科尼

Italian politics 意大利政治 Silvio Berlusconi, social worker 社工贝卢斯科尼 Embarrassments pile up but the former prime minister still has political clout 纵使意大利政坛窘境重重，前总理依旧虎死余威在 NOT good: but fa

经济学人:北海 油尽气绝

The North Sea 北海 Running on fumes 油尽气绝 Scottish nationalists are right to charge that Britain has mismanaged North Sea oil. Unionists are probably right to retort that the alternative would be worse 苏格兰民族主义者们明确指出英

经济学人:超市大采购 该死的通道

Grocery shopping 超市大采购 Aisle be damned 该死的通道 For the best bargains, avoid shopping around for your groceries 欲求物美价廉货，货比三家要不得 THRIFTY shoppers do not have to look far to find a bargain. Offers abound i

经济学人:改革国民医保系统 良药苦口

Britain 英国 Reforming the NHS 改革国民医保系统 Bitter medicine 良药苦口 Competition is not the cause of the NHS's problems 竞争不是导致国民医保系统问题的原因 LIKE patients shrinking from needles, many doctors fear poli

经济学人:俄罗斯的隐形朋友 为何欧洲民粹派与激进派皆欣赏普京

Charlemagne 查理曼 Russia's friends in black 俄罗斯的隐形朋友 Why Europe's populists and radicals admire Vladimir Putin 为何欧洲民粹派与激进派皆欣赏普京 IF EUROPE'S far-right parties do as well as many expect in May's Europ

经济学人:专业和商业服务 英国经济的救世主

Professional and business services 专业和商业服务 To the rescue 英国经济的救世主 Britain's new champions are bean-counters and PowerPoint artists 会计师和PPT艺术家们成为英国各行业中的新贵 Dress-down Friday 不用穿正

经济学人:福利改革 睡房与碎砖

Welfare reform 福利改革 Bedrooms and brickbats 睡房与碎砖 The bedroom tax will probably survive 睡房税很可能延续 ON A sunny spring morning, a small group of protesters wait at the Department of Work and Pensions with a giant card for

经济学人:反对人口普查 十年一度制度被保留

Official statistics 官方统计 Con census 反对人口普查 Britain's decennial population count has been saved. Now make it work better 英国十年一度的人口普查被保留，如今需改良运作状态 WHEN the first results of the 2011 ce

经济学人:穆斯林与教育 宗教学习

Muslims and education 穆斯林与教育 Religious studies 宗教学习 Giving schools more autonomy and encouraging religious groups to run them will produce the occasional disaster 给与学校过多自治权并鼓励宗教组织经营学校都有可

经济学人:学生贷款 学费问题

Britain Student loans Fees fi fo fum 英国 学生贷款 学费？妈妈咪呀~ The new student loans system is proving more expensive than expected 新的学生贷款系统耗资比预期更多 POLITICAL apologies are rarely so awkward. 政治道歉很

经济学人:德国政府 简单政治糟糕政策

Germany's government 德国政府 Easy politics, bad policies 简单的政治，糟糕的政策 By indulging her Social Democratic coalition partners, Angela Merkel risks turning Germany in the wrong direction 安格拉默克尔对其社会民主党盟

经济学人:法国改革 出租车战争

French reforms 法国改革 Taxi wars 出租车战争 A case study of vested interests trying to fight off new competitors 既得利益者排斥新竞争者的个案分析 PARIS is the only city in the world where it is hard to find a taxi. So in 200

经济学人:奥斯本将军 财政大臣诡计连连

Bagehot 白芝浩 General Osborne 奥斯本将军 The chancellor's fifth budget was full of trickeryyet utterly serious 财政大臣发布的第五个财政预算诡计连连但确实严肃 NOW this is not the end. It is not even the beginning of the

经济学人:养老金 随用随取的钱罐

Pensions 养老金 Pot luck 随用随取的钱罐 The chancellor hands more freedom to retirees 财政大臣给予退休人员更多的自由 GET out those cruise brochuresretirees may soon be going on a spending spree. Historically, most Britons wit

经济学人:楼市 温和战略

Housing 楼市 Modest plans 温和战略 The government goes back into housebuilding 政府重回地产建设 WHEN George Osborne is spotted outsideWestminster, he is very often making an appearance on a building site, wearing a fluorescent safety ja

经济学人:太阳能发电厂 蓝色的钢铁海洋

Solar farms 太阳能发电厂 Blue steel 蓝色的钢铁海洋 British fields adopt a new crop 英国大地上种起了新庄稼 Let's take it to Spain 我们把它搬去西班牙吧 TWO nuclear bombs are among many curious machines which the Scienc

经济学人:德国社会抚恤金 方向错误

Germany's public pensions 德国社会抚恤金 In the wrong direction 方向错误 The government is reversing some of its predecessor's sensible pension reforms 政府正在颠覆之前明智的抚恤金改革政策 AS THE country with the European

经济学人:燃气价格 能源产业之争

Gas prices 燃气价格 Fuel on the fire 能源产业之争 Another cheap shot at energy firms misses the mark 又一次对能源企业的失败算计 GIVEN the parlous state of Britain's energy system, it is hard to think that Ed Davey, the energy s

经济学人:疑欧派 狡猾的计划

Eurosceptics 疑欧派 A cunning plan 狡猾的计划 Eurosceptics adopt an old Marxist technique 欧洲怀疑论者采用了古老的马克思主义技术 BRUSSELS-BASHING is never out of season in Britain, but the past few weeks have been unusually

经济学人:黑的士 阶级保护主义

Black cabs 黑的士 Rank protectionism 阶级保护主义 A distorted market is becoming even more intolerable 畸形的市场越发难以忍受 Licensed to bill 授权开账单 ALONG with red letterboxes and telephone booths, London's black taxis a