经济学人:优步第一把交椅:新时代的考验(上)

Business 商业 Uber: Gear change 优步：换挡 A new era begins at Uber as Travis Kalanick steps down. 随着拉维斯卡兰尼克（Travis Kalanick）辞去Uber首席执行官一职，优步进入新时代。 We have a lot of attention as it is.

经济学人:特朗普欲将空中交通私有化(上)

Business 商业 Air travel: Roger, Tango, Romeo, Ump 空中旅行：收到 President Trump wants to privatise air-traffic control 特朗普总统意欲将空中交通控制私有化 In June 1956 a TWA Constellation collided with a United Air Lines DC

经济学人:一周商业要闻

The World This Week Business America's big banks reported earnings for the second quarter. 美国的各大银行发布了第二季度的营收。 The headline figures looked buoyant, partly because of lower operational and litigation costs. 数据显示

经济学人417:永无止境的欲望

Books and Arts; Book Review;Money and the markets 文艺；书评；货币与市场 Insatiable longing 永无止境的欲望 Two new books probe the limits of capitalism 两本新书带领我们探索资本主义的底线 How Much Is Enough? Money an

经济学人412:上世纪的名流 Twentieth-century lion

Books and Arts; Book Review;Harry Belafonte's autobiography； 文艺；书评；哈利贝拉方特自传； Twentieth-century lion； 上世纪的名流； My Song: A Memoir of Art, Race and Defiance. By Harry Belafonte； 《我的歌：追忆艺术，

经济学人:中国人为何爱看宫斗剧(1)

China 中国 Chaguan 茶馆 Tremble and obey 战栗与臣服 Why stressed-out Chinese fall for melodrama about life in the imperial court 为什么焦虑不安的中国人爱看宫斗剧 A bit surprisingly, one of the best things about the Story of Y

经济学人:英国脱欧带伤闯关前途叵测(1)

Leaders 社论 Into the endgame 进入尾声 How Parliament should weigh up the Brexit deal 英国议会应该如何权衡退欧协议 At last, Britains game of three-dimensional chess with the European Union is entering its closing phase. 最终，英

经济学人447:土耳其总统 高高在上的埃尔多安

Turkey's president 土耳其总统 Erdogan on top 高高在上的埃尔多安 It would be better for Turkey if the presidency remained mainly ceremonial 土耳其的总统职务保持礼仪性岂不是更好 RECEP TAYYIP ERDOGAN, Turkey's prime minis

经济学人361:老主题 新故事

When Captain Flint Was Still A Good Man. By Nick Dybek. 《那时，弗林特船长仍是个好人》尼克迪贝克著 VAST, turbulent and mysterious, the sea is a gift to storytellers. It is a perilous passageway to new lands and a bountiful source

经济学人362:在刚果行医的女医生Lyn Lusi

DARKNESS was a word Lyn Lusi was used to. Western journalists instinctively reached for it when they came to her hospital in Goma in the Democratic Republic of Congo, in Joseph Conrad's heart of darkness. 黑暗，林恩.露丝（Lyn Lusi）早已习惯

经济学人363:危险群体(1)

THEY hang out in pockets, says Richard Pan, a Sacramento paediatrician and member of Californias legislature. He is referring to parents who, invoking a philosophical exemption, opt not to give their children the state-recommended vaccinations. In so

经济学人365:关于意识如何作用的新想法

The unconscious mind 潜意识 Hidden depths 藏匿在深处 Subliminal: How Your Unconscious Mind Rules Your Behaviour. By Leonard Mlodinow. 《潜意识：你的潜意识如何支配你的行为》；伦纳德 蒙洛迪诺著； ASK someone to name

经济学人364:危险群体(2)

Other parents fret about thimerosal, a preservative that contains trace amounts of mercury. Not only were these amounts minute and safe, but thimerasol has now been eliminated from all vaccines, with the exception of multi-dose flu shots. Often these

经济学人360:早期音乐运动之父古斯塔夫.莱昂哈特

Obituary 讣告 Gustav Leonhardt 古斯塔夫莱昂哈特 Gustav Leonhardt, harpsichordist and father of the early-music movement, died on January 16th, aged 83. 羽管键琴家，早期音乐运动之父古斯塔夫.莱昂哈特于1月16日去世，享

经济学人359:绝非易事(2)

Mr Romney can spare the bottom 40% any loss of income from reduced tax expenditures relatively easily. Whereas that group gets the lions share of refundable tax credits such as those for children, for earned income and for university expenditures, th

经济学人347:萨拉托加市的制造业(2)

The nearby University of Albanys College of Nanoscale Science and Engineering (CNSE), the first college in the world dedicated to nanotechnology, is doing much the same. A decade ago Alain Kaloyeros, who runs it, set up a partnership with industry an

经济学人321:势利之国 Snob Nation

ON FEBRUARY 25th Rick Santorum, the second-ranking Republican presidential hopeful, called President Barack Obama a snob for advising everyone to get themselves a college education. America, apparently, is a nation of snobs. In a recent poll 94% of p

经济学人320:无处高速 Going Nowhere Fast

NOT long ago, Barack Obama was hoping that high-speed trains would provide America with the desired twofer. First, building the special tracks and locomotives would put a division or two of Americas army of unemployed back to work. Then, once built,

经济学人319:消失的美好时代

NOW almost five years old, the economic crisis rumbles on. In order to assess how much economic progress it has undone, The Economist has constructed a measure of lost time for hard-hit countries. It shows that Greeces economic clock has been turned

经济学人340:加州的海水淡化

IF CALIFORNIA were not already so famous for Silicon Valley and Hollywood, it might be renowned for the cluster of water-technology firms in its San Diego County. The reverse-osmosis (RO) spiral module, the trick that underpins turning sea- and waste