Leaders 社论 Securitisation 证券化 It's back 重新启动 Once a cause of the financial world's problems, securitisation is now part of the solution 证券化曾经是导致金融危机的因素之一,如今却能帮助解决金融难题 GIVEN

发表于:2019-02-19 / 阅读(72) / 评论(0) 分类 经济学人综合

Leaders 社论 Minimum wages 最低工资标准 The logical floor 多少才合理 Moderate minimum wages do more good than harm. They should be set by technocrats not politicians 实施适度的最低工资标准利大于弊,但是它们应该由技术

发表于:2019-02-19 / 阅读(69) / 评论(0) 分类 经济学人综合

Nancy Wake 南希 saboteur and special agent, died on August 7th, aged 98 南希?威克,二战间功勋卓越的英国间谍特工,8月7日去世,享年98岁。 CONVIVIAL, and not averse to a drink, Nancy Wake could often be found cheering up a

发表于:2019-02-19 / 阅读(49) / 评论(0) 分类 经济学人综合

Immortality 永生 For ever and ever 追求永生 Immortality: The Quest to Live Forever and How It Drives Civilisation. 《永生:对长命百岁的追求及这是如何影响文明》 IMMORTALITY is an age-old obsession. Plenty of literature deal

发表于:2019-02-19 / 阅读(44) / 评论(0) 分类 经济学人综合

Emerging markets: To have or have not 新兴市场:取舍之间 Breakout Nations: In Pursuit of the Next Economic Miracles. By Ruchir Sharma 《经济突破型国家:追逐未来经济奇迹》,拉尔奇.沙尔曼著 EMERGING markets is a usefu

发表于:2019-02-19 / 阅读(55) / 评论(0) 分类 经济学人综合

American telecoms 美国电信 A breath of fresh airwavesyou want 呼吸新鲜的电波 The scramble for spectrum could reshape Americas telecoms industry 频谱争夺战可能打开美国电信新局面 JULIUS GENACHOWSKI, the head of Americas Feder

发表于:2019-02-19 / 阅读(53) / 评论(0) 分类 经济学人综合

Britain Measuring diversity 英国 衡量种族多样化 The London effect 伦敦效应 Britain is becoming more like its capital city 英国渐渐成为一个大都市 Milton Keynes, a new town of 249,000 people some 50 miles from London, is famous

发表于:2019-02-19 / 阅读(51) / 评论(0) 分类 经济学人综合

Egypt after the coup 政变之后的埃及 It isnt over yet 一切还未终结 A week after the military coup that overthrew Egypts elected Islamist president, the country remains dangerously divided 埃及发生军事政变,民选伊斯兰总统遭罢

发表于:2019-02-19 / 阅读(110) / 评论(0) 分类 经济学人综合

Transatlantic espionage 横跨大西洋的谍战 The lives of others 窃听风暴 European governments should not kick up a fuss about American spying. They have too much to lose 欧洲国家政府不应为了棱镜门而大吵大闹。因为他们将损

发表于:2019-02-19 / 阅读(58) / 评论(0) 分类 经济学人综合

Curators in other countries are alarmed at what they see as growing aggression. A leading museum director even described the campaign as blackmail. So what chance has Turkey of winning this new culture war? 其他国家的馆长将这些日益增长的

发表于:2019-02-19 / 阅读(71) / 评论(0) 分类 经济学人综合

Business 商业 Uniqlo Golden fleeces 日本服装品牌神话优衣库 Zara's Japanese rival gears itself to conquer China. 作为西班牙服装品牌Zara的竞争对手,日本本土服饰品牌Uniqlo优衣库正加速占领中国市场。 FASHIO

发表于:2019-02-19 / 阅读(63) / 评论(0) 分类 经济学人综合

Business 商业。 Yahoo 雅虎。 Googling a new boss 从谷歌来的新总裁。 Marissa Mayer takes on one of the toughest jobs in tech 玛丽莎梅耶尔接任技术界一份最艰巨的工作。 SHORTLY after news broke on July 16th of her appoi

发表于:2019-02-19 / 阅读(130) / 评论(0) 分类 经济学人综合

Science and technology. 科技。 Nanotechnology. 纳米技术。 A fab result. 生物工厂。 A novel way of making computer memories, using bacteria. 制造计算机存储器的新奇方法:使用细菌。 FOR half a century, the essence of prog

发表于:2019-02-19 / 阅读(76) / 评论(0) 分类 经济学人综合

Books and Arts; Book Review; 文艺;书评; Asia and the West;Never the twain 东西方;欢喜冤家 The intellectual roots of Asian anti-Westernism 亚洲知识分子反西化的学术根源 From the Ruins of Empire: The Revolt Against the W

发表于:2019-02-18 / 阅读(55) / 评论(0) 分类 经济学人综合

Jim Thompson 吉姆?汤普森 Boat against the current 逆流而上的船只 The disillusionment of a man of charm 一个魅力男的觉醒 The Ideal Man: The Tragedy of Jim Thompson and the American Way of War. By Joshua Kurlantzick. Wiley; 253 page

发表于:2019-02-18 / 阅读(50) / 评论(0) 分类 经济学人综合

Linguistics 语言学 Argot bargy 方言来袭 Why urban teenagers speak the way they do 城里的年轻人为什么那样说话 Nov 2nd 2013 |From the print edition You think my accents bonkers. Your kids speak like me 你觉得我的口音弱爆了。

发表于:2019-02-18 / 阅读(55) / 评论(0) 分类 经济学人综合

Deep-sea exploration 深海探索 The age of Aquarius 1 宝瓶时代1 Inner space is almost as hard to explore as outer space 探太空难,察深海亦不易 Have you seen Camerons latest? 卡梅隆的新作你看了吗? JAMES CAMERON knows how t

发表于:2019-02-18 / 阅读(46) / 评论(0) 分类 经济学人综合

A MAN walks into a conference room at the W hotel in downtown Austin. The setting, sleek and hushed, says business. The trainersred, puffy, and paired with a sports coatadd a wink: new business. 一名男士步入了奥斯汀市中心W酒店的会议室

发表于:2019-02-18 / 阅读(67) / 评论(0) 分类 经济学人综合

Books and Arts; London fiction 文艺;伦敦小说 The best of cities, the worst of cities 这是最好的城市,也是最坏的城市 The capital as inspiration for novelists 首都伦敦,小说家灵感之源 London is a great cesspool into w

发表于:2019-02-18 / 阅读(241) / 评论(0) 分类 经济学人综合

THE night before Republicans in Alabama and Mississippi voted in their primaries, Newt Gingrich and Rick Santorum made their final appeals at a forum in an ornate old theatre in downtown Birmingham. Mitt Romney, whom Mr Gingrich has relentlessly deri

发表于:2019-02-18 / 阅读(56) / 评论(0) 分类 经济学人综合