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2019年经济学人 电子支付(2)
Cash is dying out because of two forces. One is demand younger consumers want payment systems that plug seamlessly into their digital lives. But equally important is that suppliers such as banks and tech firms (in developed markets) and telecoms comp
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2019年经济学人 一周要闻 美国掀反垄断调查 脸书被罚50亿美元 波音季度亏损2
The world this week 本周要闻 Business 商业 Americas Justice Department announced a broad antitrust review of the market power of online platforms in search, social media and retailing. That increases the pressure on Amazon, Apple, Facebook and
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汇率操纵(1)
The southern shrimp alliance, an industry association based in Florida, is angling for tariffs. 总部位于佛罗里达的一家产业协会南方养虾联盟正试图征收关税。 It has tried repeatedly to have foreign competitors harpooned with
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电子支付(3)
These problems have three remedies. First, governments need to ensure that central banks monopoly over coins and notes is not replaced by private monopolies over digital money. Rather than letting a few credit-card firms have a stranglehold on the el
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2019年经济学人 一周要闻 日产大规模裁员 特朗普再批美联储 福特叫板特斯拉
South Africas finance minister laid out plans to provide Eskom, which generates most of the countrys electricity, with another rescue, this time worth 59bn rand ($4.2bn). Moodys, a credit-rating agency, said that because the embattled utility is ever
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2019年经济学人 汇率操纵(2)
The Commerce Department's would allow its officials to declare a country a manipulator even if the Treasury had not. 美国商务部将允许其官员宣布一个国家为汇率操纵国，即便财政部没有这样做。 Companies seeking an unfair
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2019年经济学人 刚果出租车司机皮埃尔·曼贝尔(2)
Because he was so audacious, and had good instincts, and would go to places other drivers wouldn't, his taxi became the car of choice for Western journalists. It was good money, $35 a day in the 1990s (though the best money came from Western tv crews
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2019年经济学人 熊彼特企业管理专栏--外卖经济学(1)
Business 来源于《商业》版块 Schumpeter 熊彼特企业管理专栏 Foodoo economics 食物经济学 Meal delivery is anything but a tasty business 外卖绝不是一门美味的生意 Even those who recoil at eating supper out of a soggy box
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2019年经济学人 熊彼特企业管理专栏--外卖经济学(2)
Mr Groen is a reluctant apostle of black magic. He once said of his efforts to expand beyond the Netherlands, Its horrible. Weve spent 100 times more money in Germany than I thought Id ever be able to spend. Takeaways deal with Just Eat highlights th
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2019年经济学人 熊彼特企业管理专栏--外卖经济学(3)
The only mouthwatering aspect of the delivery business is its potential size. According to Bernstein, a brokerage, almost a third of the global restaurant industry is made up of home delivery, takeaway and drive-throughs, which could be worth $1trn b
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2019年经济学人 刚果出租车司机皮埃尔·曼贝尔(3)
There had been one golden moment. It came in 1974, the year he started driving a taxi. Congo, then called Zaire, won the African Soccer Cup and hosted the Rumble in the Jungle, the heavyweight boxing match between George Foreman and Muhammad Ali. Kin
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2019年经济学人 濒危物种(1)
濒危物种(1) Leaders 来源于《社论》版块 Endangered specie 濒于灭绝的物种 The elephant in the room 屋中象 Now is not the time to liberalise the trade in endangered species 现在不是放开濒危物种贸易的时候 Nearly 6,00
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2019年经济学人 光的种子(1)
Lens is the Latin word for lentil. And it is indeed true that the shape of biconvex lenses Lens是拉丁词小扁豆的意思。双凸透镜的形状确实如此 the familiar sort used as magnifying glassesresembles those leguminous seeds. 放大镜常
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2019年经济学人 熊彼特企业管理专栏--外卖经济学(4)
Moreover, potential growth may be overstated. Subsidies make true demand hard to gauge. When delivery charges and service fees eventually rise, which they will have to if profits are to materialise, some customers may flee. In the meantime, cheap mon
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2019年经济学人 光的种子(2)
In practice, few optical systems other than eyeglasses rely on single lenses. 实际上，除了眼镜，很少有光学系统依赖于单透镜。 Usually, different lenses with different properties are stacked on top of each other to remove aberrat
