2018-07-19 所属栏目:经济学人双语版|经济学人下载

New talks were held to try to end South Sudan’s five-year civil war. It is the first time the two key leaders in the conflict have met in two years. All previous attempts to

2018-07-10 所属栏目:经济学人双语版|经济学人下载

Donald Trump signed an executive order allowing the children of illegal immigrants to stay with their parents in detention centres if caught crossing the Mexican border. Previously

2018-07-05 所属栏目:经济学人双语版|经济学人下载

In Japan, too, borrowers are scarce.
在日本，借钱的人也是几乎没有。Private non-financial companies, which ought to play the role, have instead been lending to the rest of the econ

2018-07-04 所属栏目:经济学人双语版|经济学人下载

In Gesell's story, unlike Fisher's, storing wealth requires considerable effort and ingenuity.
在格塞尔的故事中，不同于费雪的是，储存财富需要巨大的努力和心灵手巧。Meat must be c

2018-06-28 所属栏目:经济学人双语版|经济学人下载

(A sailor who had already depleted his supplies, leaving him with no additional hardtack of his own to eat today, would be in no position to repay borrowed biscuits either.)
(早已

2018-06-27 所属栏目:经济学人双语版|经济学人下载

Finance and Economics
财经Free exchange
自由交流Negative justice
负公平Sub-zero interest rates are neither unfair nor unnatural.
负利率既非不公平也非不自然。DENMARK'S Maritime

2018-06-27 所属栏目:经济学人双语版|经济学人下载

What explains the sudden turmoil?
何以解释这场突如其来的动荡呢?Perhaps investors had been used to good news for so long that they had become complacent.
也许，投资者已经习惯于好消

2018-06-22 所属栏目:经济学人双语版|经济学人下载

Finance and economics
财经Markets: Boo!
市场：哈！After a long period of calm, investors get a shock.
一阵平静过后，投资者们受一重击。Every good horror-film director knows the s

2018-06-20 所属栏目:经济学人双语版|经济学人下载

That might lead to a different kind of dystopia (also with historical antecedents): one in which fast, functional transport is available only to those who can pay.
这可能会去往一个

2018-06-19 所属栏目:经济学人双语版|经济学人下载

But reductions in traffic will make living in currently congested areas more attractive and hence morepopulous.
但是，交通拥堵的缓解将使现有拥堵的区域更有吸引力，因此人口会更加密集

2018-06-19 所属栏目:经济学人双语版|经济学人下载

Regrettably, clumping leads to crowding: the more people an area houses, the greater the competition for its scarce resources,
遗憾的是，聚集带来了拥堵：一个区域住了越多的人，稀缺

2018-06-15 所属栏目:经济学人双语版|经济学人下载

Finance and Economics
财经Free exchange: Jam tomorrow
自由交流：堵在明天Driverless cars will not save cities from either traffic or infrastructure expense.
无人车不会将城市从滚滚

2018-06-12 所属栏目:经济学人双语版|经济学人下载

Though studies show that telling people that payment encourages organ donations increases support for legalising payments, other examples work in the opposite way.
尽管研究表明，告

2018-06-08 所属栏目:经济学人双语版|经济学人下载

At the AEA conference Alvin Roth, a Nobel prizewinner, delivered a lecture on his life-saving work in the field of market design.
在AEA会议上，诺贝尔奖得主艾尔文·罗斯就他在

2018-06-08 所属栏目:经济学人双语版|经济学人下载

This approach is enormously valuable.
这种方式非常有价值。It disciplines thinking, produces useful information and makes it easier to build professional consensus about what is kn

2018-06-07 所属栏目:经济学人双语版|经济学人下载

Finance and Economics
财经Free exchange: Moral hazard
自由交流：道德风险Economists cannot avoid making value judgments, however much they might wish to.
经济学家无法避免作出价值

2018-06-05 所属栏目:经济学人双语版|经济学人下载

Whether additional effort translates into higher wages depends on the other options available to workers and on their bargaining power
额外的努力能否转化为高额的工资取决于员工手中

2018-06-05 所属栏目:经济学人双语版|经济学人下载

Heaps of data about their activities within a work-space are gathered, while their cognitive contribution is reduced.
设备可以收集众多员工在工作场所的活动数据，但员工的认知贡献也会

2018-06-04 所属栏目:经济学人双语版|经济学人下载

Workers and labour activists have often attacked strict discipline as coercive, unfair and potentially counterproductive.
工人和劳工活动人士一直以来都在批判纪律苛刻，认为这是强迫性

2018-06-04 所属栏目:经济学人双语版|经济学人下载

Finance and Economics
财经Free exchange
自由交流Better, stronger, faster
更好、更强、更快Labour-monitoring technologies raise efficiency—and hard questions.
劳动力监督技术

2018-05-25 所属栏目:经济学人双语版|经济学人下载

Apple’s market capitalisation rose to over $800bn for the first time.
苹果公司的市值首次突破8000亿美元。The company’s share price is up by 32% since the start of the y

2018-05-24 所属栏目:经济学人双语版|经济学人下载

Mario Draghi defended negative rates in a speech to the legislative assembly in the Netherlands.
Mario Draghi在荷兰立法会上的一次演说中为负利率辩护。It was a rare trip to a nation

2018-05-24 所属栏目:经济学人双语版|经济学人下载

The World This Week - Business
本周 - 商业AkzoNobel, a Dutch maker of paints and coatings, rejected a third informal takeover offer, worth 26.9bn euros ($28.8bn), from PPG, an Ame

2018-05-23 所属栏目:经济学人双语版|经济学人下载

At the same time a growing number of private firms have ambitions to mine precious metals from those celestial bodies, too.
同时，许多私营公司都有从那些天体中开采贵金属的野心。One

2018-05-23 所属栏目:经济学人双语版|经济学人下载

Science and technology: Space exploration: Dusting yourself down
科技：空间探索：拂去尘埃A new space suit could resist the damaging effects of sharp lunar dust.
一款新型的宇航服能