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- Britain’s economy: How is it really doing?

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- China and the environment: The East is grey

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United States

- Barack Obama and the war on terror: Taking no chances

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The Americas

- Corruption in Venezuela: The billion-dollar fraud

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- Italian politics: L’Italia giusta v political expediency

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Britain

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Business

- Business and cyber-crime: Firewalls and firefights

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- American newspapers: Chasing paper profits

- Commercialising neuroscience: Brain sells

- Browser wars: Chrome rules the web

- Italian manufacturing: A washout

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Finance and economics

- Europe’s bail-out programmes: What Angela isn’t saying

- Raghuram Rajan joins the RBI: Out of the frying pan

- The race to head the Federal Reserve: Summers v Yellen

- The trial of Fabrice Tourre: Collective guilt

- Abenomics: Zoning out

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- The price of fish: Different scales

- Free exchange: Glorious and arduous

- Free exchange: Correction: America’s GDP

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Science and technology

- The perils of sitting down: Standing orders

- Artificial meat: A quarter-million pounder and fries

- Influenza: Damned if you don’t

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Books and arts

- Christians, Muslims and Jesus: Centuries of dialogue

- The Johnson & Johnson dynasty: Pass the painkillers

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- Wu Dengming

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Economic and financial indicators

- Output, prices and jobs

- Trade, exchange rates, budget balances and interest rates

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Table of Contents

The Economist [Tue, 13 Aug 2013]

The world this week

Politics this week

Business this week

KAL's cartoon

Leaders

Britain’s economy: How is it really doing?

Climate change: Can China clean up fast enough?

Computer hacking: A byte for a byte

Italian politics: Addio, Silvio

Legal highs: A new prescription

Letters

Letters: On tax reform, cochlear implants, outdated acts, gift-giving, paying MPs, treating mental illness, home-brewing, crime, entrepreneurs

Briefing

China and the environment: The East is grey

United States

Barack Obama and the war on terror: Taking no chances

America and Russia: No speaks

Executive misbehaviour (1): San Diego: Just a little local difficulty

Executive misbehaviour (2): Virginia: Gifts galore

Dysfunctional Illinois: No play, no pay

The Baseball Hall of Fame: We’ll get ’em next year

Lexington: Keeping the mighty honest

The Americas

Corruption in Venezuela: The billion-dollar fraud

Brazil’s opposition: Own goals

Social networking in Latin America: Follow the leader

Social networking in Latin America: Correction: Cuba

Asia

Thailand’s economy: The rice mountain

Taiwan’s army: Blooded

Japan and China: Fishing trips

Japanese security: Wide-mouthed frog

Australian politics: Trust v fair dinkum

Bangladesh’s volatile politics: The battling begums

Banyan: Conquerors of kings?

China

Aviation: Crowded skies, frustrated passengers

Food safety: Spilt milk

Anti-abortion activism: Uncommon cause

Middle East and Africa

Elections in Zimbabwe: Stealing the vim from Zim

Syria’s civil war: A flower in the desert

Syria’s war economy: Bullets and bank accounts

The Middle East’s migrant workers: Forget about rights

The Israel Defence Forces: Taking wing

Europe

Italian politics: L’Italia giusta v political expediency

Alpine dress: The Lederhosen boom

Turkish politics: Justice or revenge?

Hungary’s Roma: How to get out of a vicious circle

Spain and Gibraltar: Like North Korea?

Social media and French: Nous twitterons

Britain

Living standards: Squeezing the hourglass

Organised crime: Farewell to the heist

Lloyds Banking Group: Industrial revolution

The price of the performing arts: Pit performance

Social workers: First, care

Subsidies for working mothers: Keep it in the family

International

The Indosphere: Made outside India

Business

Business and cyber-crime: Firewalls and firefights

Mexico’s oil industry: Unfixable Pemex

American newspapers: Chasing paper profits

Commercialising neuroscience: Brain sells

Browser wars: Chrome rules the web

Italian manufacturing: A washout

Schumpeter: Cronies and capitols

Finance and economics

Europe’s bail-out programmes: What Angela isn’t saying

Raghuram Rajan joins the RBI: Out of the frying pan

The race to head the Federal Reserve: Summers v Yellen

The trial of Fabrice Tourre: Collective guilt

Abenomics: Zoning out

Buttonwood: Carry on trading

The price of fish: Different scales

Free exchange: Glorious and arduous

Free exchange: Correction: America’s GDP

Science and technology

The perils of sitting down: Standing orders

Artificial meat: A quarter-million pounder and fries

Influenza: Damned if you don’t

3D printing with paper: Print me the head of Alfredo Garcia

Books and arts

Christians, Muslims and Jesus: Centuries of dialogue

The Johnson & Johnson dynasty: Pass the painkillers

Spanish culture under Franco: Rebels with a cause

New American fiction: Blood sport

The photographs of Mathew Brady: History on film

“Billy Budd” at Glyndebourne: High notes

Obituary

Wu Dengming

Economic and financial indicators

Output, prices and jobs

Trade, exchange rates, budget balances and interest rates

The Economist commodity-price index

The Economist poll of forecasters, August averages

Markets