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2021年经济学人 互联网是有记忆的,言论不当总要买单(2)
In aiming for these, people often miss the mark, one reason the platform hosts so much recklessness, attention-seeking and off-target humour. Yet though tweets may be appraised like speech, they are punished like writing. Posts may seem to disappear
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2021年经济学人 弱势的残酷--发展以牺牲为代价(1)
Books arts 文艺板块 Book review 书评 The Peruvian Amazon 秘鲁的亚马逊热带雨林 The wood from the trees 雨林困境 Wars of the Interior. By Joseph Zarate. Translated by Annie McDermott. 《林内战争》。作者：约瑟夫萨拉特。
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2021年经济学人 弱势的残酷--发展以牺牲为代价(2)
Though Mr Zarates fi?ndings could fi?ll scathing exposes of the kind churned out by Greenpeace, his technique is more like that of Svetlana Alexievich, the Belarusian writer who was awarded the Nobel prize for literature in 2015. A quote from one of
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2021年经济学人 以诗喃吟唱愤怒与希望(1)
Books arts 文艺版块 Les slammeurs 诗喃者 Rhyme for your life 让生活充满韵律 Young people put their anger and hopes into spoken poetry 年轻人把他们的愤怒和希望化作口语诗 In a small, dimly lit room one recent Saturday mor
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2021年经济学人 以诗喃吟唱愤怒与希望(2)
Actually, Gomas slammers do both. Their city has been surrounded by warring armed groups for over 20 years. Rebels, who generally fund themselves by smuggling gold, coltan and wood, often kidnap people on nearby roads. In February men wielding Kalash
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2021年经济学人 美国内战--时代姐妹花(1)
Books arts 文艺板块 Book review 书评 American history 美国历史 Band of sisters 姐妹团 The Agitators. By Dorothy Wickenden. 《鼓动者》，作者：多萝西威肯登 Abraham Lincoln had his team of rivals, but they were all white men
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2021年经济学人 美国内战--时代姐妹花(2)
But the civil war scattered them. Tubman went to South Carolina to establish a settlement for freed slaves and serve as a Union scout and spy. Seward spent time in Washington as the discontented wife of a cabinet member. Her household and Wrights sen
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2021年经济学人 你永远都无法叫醒一个装睡的人(1)
Books arts 文艺版块 Book review 书评 Egyptian fiction 埃及小说 A general in his labyrinth 陷入迷途的将军 The Republic of False Truths. By Alaa Al Aswany 《虚假真理共和国》，作者：亚拉阿斯万尼 In the Yacoubian build
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2021年经济学人 你永远都无法叫醒一个装睡的人(2)
On the other side are the likes of Asmaa Zanaty, a teacher who cant believe her colleagues turn away students too poor to pay. Her beloved, Mazen, a workers representative, says the problem is not the teachers but the whole rotten system. Their lette
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2021年经济学人 人类之蜜糖,动物之砒霜(1)
Books arts 文艺板块 Book review 书评 Interspecies relations 种间关系 Creature discomforts 动物的烦恼 How to Love Animals. By Henry Mance. 《如何爱动物》。作者：亨利曼斯 Cat videos are the definition of clickbait, dogs ar
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2021年经济学人 人类之蜜糖,动物之砒霜(2)
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 good conscience. He argues that cows raised for beef have better lives ove
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2021年经济学人 中国做大金融开放蛋糕,不再担心“狼来了”(5)
The pessimistic view is that China is, and always will be, the market of the future. The head of a foreign bank in Shanghai describes China's regulatory demands as a purity test. To obtain licences to operate, banks must have teams of underwriters an
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2021年经济学人 中国做大金融开放蛋糕,不再担心“狼来了”(6)
A stately manner 国家风范 Over the past few months, the strength of currency inflows into Chinavia both its trade surplus and inbound financial investmentsimplied that the yuan should have appreciated strongly. The head of a currency desk at a fo
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2021年经济学人 美国的通胀预期到底有多稳固?(1)
Inflation expectations 通胀预期 A different kind of fluke 另一种锚 Just how anchored are America's inflation expectations 美国的通胀预期有多稳固 Since democrats proposed a $1.9trn fiscal stimulus in January, hawks have warned that
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2021年经济学人 美国的通胀预期到底有多稳固?(2)
But how strong is the anchor? There are at least three types of inflation expectations: those priced into financial markets; those that appear in surveys of households and businesses; and those of professional forecasters. Market expectations have be
