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The Economist August 24th 2024
Contents
The world this week
7 A summary of political
and business news
Leaders
9 Kamala Harris
How would she govern?
10 Mpox
How to contain it
10 Artificial intelligence
Reality check
11 US recession scares
The topsy-turvy economy
12 Indian tourists
How to entice them
Letters
13 On education, Africa,
tourism, Russia, Lyndon
Johnson
Briefing
14 Kamala Harris
Woolly warrior
Britain
17 Struggles with statistics
18 Mike Lynch
19 Supercomputer cancelled
20 Oxford’s next chancellor
20 Youth clubs
21 Public inquiries
Europe
22 Russia and sanctions
23 The pounding of Pokrovsk
24 Turkey’s new wealth
25 Southern Italy’s EU cash
25 People head for Poland
26 Berlin’s overdue museums
27 Charlemagne Returning
politicians
United States
28 Law-and-order
Democrats
29 Police killings
30 Third-party candidates
31 The northern border
31 Stuck in space
32 Demolition derbies
33 Lexington Joe Biden
The Americas
34 Mexico’s incoming
president...
35 ...and energy policy
36 Argentina’s military
splurge
Middle East & Africa
37 The Middle East’s
waiting game
38 Iran’s new government
39 Dating apps during a war
39 Africa’s green-VC shift
40 Containing mpox
41 YouTube news in Africa
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Schumpeter The Linda
Evangelista approach to
big tech. Our columnist’s
valedictory, page 58
On the cover
Kamala Harris can beat Donald
Trump. But would she make a
successful president? Leader,
page 9. The Democratic nominee
is studiously vague about her
policy platform: briefing, page 14.
Joe Biden’s last campaign:
Lexington, page 33. China’s rulers
are surprised by Kamala Harris
and Tim Walz, page 46. Kamala
Harris is the latest candidate to
embrace self-defeating
economics, page 61
Russia’s mysterious middlemen
Sanctions on Russia are as
watertight as a sieve, page 22
Indian tourists go global
How to attract the recreational
rupee: leader, page 12. The rise
of a new tourism superpower,
page 50
Big food’s big upheaval
A new menu for the food business,
page 52
Cancellarius culture
Oxford chooses a new chancellor,
crossly, page 20
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