News from 08/08/2009
2009; Gale Group;
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William Comanor Professor, Meghnad Desai Professor, Paul Hallwood, Kevin Hoover Professor, Bertely, Claude Diebolt Research director, Jean Luc Demeulemeester Professor, Takahiro Miyao Emeritus professor, Tony Hays, Rich Toscano, Ashok Chakravarti Senior visiting lecturer, Yoram Bauman,
ResumoThe Economist VISA Contents The world this week Politics Mercedes-Benz Business How long till the lights go out? America's unjust sex laws Illiberal politics Unbalanced Germany Redesigning Europe's biggest economy Pay and politics Regulating executive compensation Something rotten Generic drugs and competition Thomson Reuters Where freedom is still at stake Islam and heresy Economic reasoning Economist Another giant leap? Human spaceflight Other highlights Online Contents Executive Focus Executive Focus Executive Focus Executive Focus Unjust and ineffective Siemens Dark days ahead The looming electricity crunch Trial of an alien Britain, America and extradition Still true blue Tory parliamentary candidates Of bankers and bankeresses Women and the financial crisis Lexus Falling short Rebuilding the banks Damp squib Britons airborne People's parties without the people Germany's political fragmentation Dying spasms Basque terrorism In the balance Moldova's elections The pawns of war Aftermath of conflict in Georgia Body heat Danish greenery Milky mess The sun also rises Signs of economic cheer Kitchen-classroom conservatives The growth of home-schooling On and off the boardwalk Coney Island's redevelopment Before the fall California's universities in trouble Puff, puff, pay Regulating cannabis in California A lucky hawk so far When two plus two equals three Cuba's penurious revolution Bazookas and bases Colombia and its neighbours Switched off Venezuela's media crackdown Reluctant partners The North American summit Bife de lomo, or bean sprouts? Argentina's meaty diet It's far from over Iran's enduring turmoil Fatah searches for renewal A Palestinian congress We don't need you any more Iraq and America A martyr to her trousers Sudan's dress-code row Stop that hunting Botswana's Bushmen Behind the Rajapaksa brothers' smiles Sri Lanka after the war Bill and Kim's excellent adventure Bill Clinton and Kim Jong Il Generals and judges Pakistan's constitutional troubles Reunification by trade? Taiwan and China Hanging in the balance Trial by jury in Japan Banyan India's hamstrung visionary The battle for a religion's heart Egypt and global Islam From harsh terrain A bold Muslim voice Struggling to hold up a bank The trouble with nuclear fuel Friends for life Big drug firms embrace generics Derricks in the darkness Uganda's oil rush Knotting the purse-strings Regulating executive pay in America Magic numbers The SEC fines GE Fabless and fearless MediaTek and mobile-phone chips Flight to value India's struggling airlines Boards behaving badly Germany's flawed corporate governance Face value A question of trust Bourne to survive Offshore private banking Buttonwood Short of ideas Heirs and cases Bank of America Light relief Measuring growth from outer space Naked fear Reforming finance: Derivatives Sea change China's provincial GDP numbers The lives of others Rebalancing the world economy: Germany Economics focus In defence of the dismal science The best of all possible worlds? A link between wealth and breeding As Dr Livingstone presumed The origin of malaria Burning issues Rainforest Fossil arachnids How to do it better Amartya Sen on justice The Idea of Justice. By Amartya Sen. Belknap Press; 496 pages; $29.95. Allen Lane; £25 How it was back then The California dream Golden Dreams: California in an Age of Abundance 1950-1963. By Kevin Starr. Oxford University Press; 576 pages; $34.95 and £19.99 Friends and foes The creation of Facebook The Accidental Billionaires: The Founding of Facebook: A Tale of Sex, Money, Genius and Betrayal. By Ben Mezrich. Doubleday; 272 pages; $25. Heinemann; £11.99 Learned and ingenious ladies British bluestockings Bluestockings: The Remarkable Story of the First Women to Fight for an Education. By Jane Robinson. Viking; 288 pages; £20 The road to insurrection Political rebels in England The English Rebel: One Thousand Years of Trouble-Making from the Normans to the Nineties. By David Horspool. Viking; 432 pages; £25 Freedom song A very British thriller The Dying Light. By Henry Porter. Orion; 425 pages; £12.99 Corazon Aquino Courses Appointments Courses Business & Personal Tenders Appointments Announcements Property Tenders Tenders Tenders Business & Personal Overview The Economist poll of forecasters, August averages Output, prices and jobs The Economist commodity-price index Trade, exchange rates, budget balances and interest rates Manufacturing activity Markets Euro Finance Oracle
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