The Economist - 07th September-13th September 2013, English Angielski, Magazine
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Xi’s party purge in China
Mobile telecoms’ two big deals
Rebellion v reform in Mexico
Farming as rocket science
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Contents
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September 7th 2013
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The world this week
Asia
39 Indonesia’s 2014
elections
Let the games begin
40 Damming the Mekong
Fish-friendly?
40 Central Asia and Russia
Remittance man
42 Terrorism in India
Do Lali
44 Banyan
This Indian land is whose
land?
Leaders
11 Striking Syria
Fight this war, not the last
one
12 Global nance
Where’s the next Lehman?
13 A Chinese power struggle
Hunting tigers
13 Capitalism
Why do rms exist?
14 3D printing
From dental braces to
astronauts’ seats
China crackdown
Is Xi Jinping
confronting corruption or
consolidating power? Leader,
page 13. China’s leadership
exes its muscles by taking
down allies of a former
security chief, page 47
On the cover
When Congress votes on Syria
it will be dening America’s
place in the world: leader,
page 11. The president makes
the case for pulling the
trigger, page 25. Syria and
the British establishment,
page 58. David Cameron
needs to relearn leadership:
Bagehot, page 60. France is
constrained and deeply
divided over military action
in Syria, page 54
China
47 Political manoeuvring
The plot thickens
48 Another princeling trial
Listening to the masses
48 The burden on students
Must not try harder
Letters
16 On Syria, Janet Yellen,
Chernobyl, crime,
education, cyborgs
Brieng
21 Clever cities
The multiplexed
metropolis
22 Urban dreamscapes
Starting from scratch
Technology Quarterly
After page 48
Middle East and Africa
49 Kenya and the
international court
It’s show time
50 Liberia
Skin-deep success
50 Ghana’s Supreme Court
Doing it properly
50 The Palestinians
Lonely Hamas
51 The state of Egypt
Old ways return
52 Iran’s new government
Cautious moves
Mexico
Enrique Peña Nieto
sticks deantly to his reform
plans. He is in for a bumpy
ride, page 37
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United States
25 America and Syria
Obama makes the case for
bombing
26 Fast-food protests
Big Labour v Big Mac
28 Interstate pollution
Smother my neighbour
28 What state lawmakers
earn
Some work for nothing
30 Welfare and work
Taxing hard-up Americans
at 95%
34 Lexington
Farming as rocket science
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Europe
53 Germany’s election
Descent into banality
54 France and Syria
Obama’s trailer?
54 Sweden and America
A president’s visit
55 Moscow’s mayor
Inspired by The Wire
56 Charlemagne
European energy
Farming as rocket science
Why American agriculture is
dierent from the European
variety: Lexington, page 34
The Americas
37 Governing Mexico
The suits v the street
38 Telecoms in Canada
Patriotic but pricey
38 Spying in Latin America
Snoops and snubs
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