International: How much have golfers improved? No gutties, more glory 国际:当代高尔夫球手的水平有多大进步?要荣誉,不要古塔球 Comparing modern golfers with champions of old is trickier than escaping from a pot bunker with
Finance and economics: The economics of generosity The kindness of neighbours 财经:慷慨经济学 邻居的善意 A new paper asks why some Tanzanian farmers are more selfish than others. 一份新的报纸说为何一些坦桑尼亚农民比其他
Finance and economic: Free exchange: Better than a wall 财经:自由交换:美墨两国的经济隔阂比墙还厚 Understanding NAFTA, a disappointing but under-appreciated trade deal. 理解北美自由贸易协定一个令人失望而又被低估
United States 美国 Trade with Mexico: Playing Chicken 美墨交易:威胁 Farmers and Texans would lose most from barriers to trade with Mexico. 农民和德州人将因墨西哥贸易障碍损失惨重 MEXICO sells America more goods than Americ
Finance and economics: Distracted teens The dreamboat next door 财经:分心的青少年,邻家梦中人 It's official: having friends of the opposite sex is bad for children's grade. 官方数据显示:与异性交朋友不利于孩子的学业
Finance and Economics 财经 The Big Mac Index: The All Meaty Dollar 巨无霸汉堡指数:强大的美元 Burgernomics gets to grips with a strong greenback. 汉堡经济学发现美元走强。 IT is perhaps not surprising that the worst-performi
Finance and Economics 财经 North Korean Data: Best Guesses 朝鲜数据:最佳猜测 Creative ways of measuring the North Korean economy. 测算朝鲜经济的创新方法 FACTS about the North Korean economy are not so much alternative as non-ex
Finance and Economics 财经 Student Loans: Grading Education 学生贷款:分级教育 A fintech startup treats student loans a serious investments. 一家新兴金融科技公司把学生贷款作为正经投资。 IN AN old factory building in l
Finance and Economics 财经 Trade Deals: Trying For Anything 贸易协议:尝试一切可能 The biggest trade deal in decades shows why getting an agreement is so hard. 数十年来内最大贸易协定表明了为什么达成协议如此困难。
Step back a bit, however, and the TFA looks rather bedraggled. 然而,稍微退一步来看,贸易便利化协定看上去破旧不堪。 It rose out of the ashes of the Doha round, the last big attempt at a global trade deal, as the least contro
Finance and Economics 财经 The Ethiopias Commodity Exchange: High-tech, low impact 埃塞俄比亚的商品交易所:高科技,低影响 A state-of-the-art commodity exchange struggles with the basics. 该国最先进的商品交易所仍在基础
That still represents a big change. 尽管如此,全球政局还是发生了不小的变化。 For the past 30 years multinationals in developed markets have mostly operated in a benign environment. 过去三十年里,成熟市场的跨国企业大
Finance and economics: Global house prices Hot in the city 财经:全球房价,楼市过热 Valuations in globalised cities are rising much faster than in their hinterlands. 全球化城市的估价比其腹地增价快。 GLOBALISATION has creat
Whenever the supply of a good is limited, there is potential for exuberance. 一种商品供给的有限性总是伴随着繁荣的潜在性。 San Francisco's property market is intertwined with the technology sector: since 2008 there has been a 93%
Finance and economics: Inequality in Japan The secure v the poor 财经:日本社会的不平等,稳定工作者与穷人 The problem is not the super-rich. 问题不在于巨富之人。 IN THOMAS PIKETTY'S bestseller, Capital in the Twenty-Firs
Business: 3D printing: Print my ride 商业:3D打印:打印我的座驾 A mass-market carmaker starts customising vehicles individually. 大众化生产商开启汽车定制新时代。 Another milestone has been passed in the adoption of additiv
Finance and economics: Insurance in China Safe or sorry? 财经:中国的保险行业,确保安全还是留有遗憾? Regulators try to tame the unruly parts of an important industry. 监管部门努力驯服一个重要行业中不守规矩的角
Economics brief: Fiscal multipliers 经济概要:财政乘数 Where does the buck stop? 责任到哪里为止? Fiscal stimulus, an idea championed by John Maynard Keynes, has gone in and out of fashion. 由凯恩斯首倡的财政刺激思想经历
Keynes advised the government during the first world war and participated in the Versailles peace conference, which ended up extracting punitive reparations from Germany. 第一次世界大战期间,凯恩斯曾在出任政府顾问,参与过最终
They should therefore save income earned as a result of stimulus in order to have it on hand for when the bill came due. 因而,为了在账单到期时手里有钱,他们应当把作为刺激结果而挣到的收入存起来。 The multiplier on
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