Table of Contents
The Economist July 21st, 2001
Issue Cover
Contents
The world this week
Business this week
Politics this week
Leaders
Missile defences: What are they really for?
Sanctions policy: Stop helping Fidel and Saddam
India and Pakistan: Hope among the ruins
France: Liberty, equality, impunity?
Climate change: Life after Kyoto
Britain’s Conservatives: It has to be Ken
Letters
On wealth, Mexico and America, Virgin Rail, idolatory
Special
Emerging markets: How the bug can spread
United States
The Democrats: More questions than answers
Public life in Arkansas: Murder, rape and Clinton-bashing
Missile tests: If at first you don’t succeed...
California’s power crisis: How to keep the fans turning
Lexington: The incredible shrinking VP
The Americas
Argentina’s economic crisis: Austerity, or bust
Tourism in Peru: Road to ruin
Mexico’s foreign policy: Branching out
Rebuilding El Salvador: Homeless, and increasingly hopeless
Asia
India and Pakistan: Summit ascended, but Kashmir not yet broached
Russia and China: Remaking history
China’s pollution: Exposing a dirty secret
Indonesia: Who’s in charge?
Piracy in Asia: Dangerous waters
Japanese reform: Sinking, not flying
International
Israeli-Palestinian fighting: Prospects of war
Egyptian unemployment: Summer of fury
African unity: Gadfly Qaddafi
Burundi: Doubtful peace
Europe
Greece’s threatened reforms: A need to clear the air
Portugal’s politics: Guterres stumbles
Italy’s finances: Rocky road ahead
Europe’s single currency: Trust or mistrust thy euro neighbour?
German gays: Stronger-wristed
France’s secret service(s): Letters of cachet
Divided Cyprus: The danger of over-doggedness
Bulgaria’s royal prime minister: The wrong job?
Charlemagne: Juan Jose Ibarretxe
Britain
Medical negligence: Tragic flaws
Leadership election: The battle for the Tory party
Tory homophobia: To fall like Lucifer
Nightlife: Old school tie
Gambling: Paris, Nevada; Luxor, Lancashire
Transport strategy: Going nowhere
Bagehot: Robin Cook’s revenge
Lord Archer: A taste for fiction
Surveys
Putin's choice
Good in part
A reconditioned model
States within the state
Mystery man
Waiting for the crunch
Endangered species
In search of an identity
Sources and acknowledgements
Offer to readers
Business
The technology industry: Big is beautiful again
Computing: Revenge of the dinosaurs
Swissair: A scary Swiss meltdown
Black empowerment: Skin deep
Iranian privatisation: A mess
Management consultants: Winners’ curse
Drugs: Marketing madness
Face value: The unknown media mogul
Finance & Economics
Mortgage-lending agencies in America: Big scary monsters
The American economy: Greenspan’s glimmer
German finance: Penny bazaar
Indian mutual funds: Unit what?
Pampering staff: Elf help
French banking: Farmers unite
Economics focus: Frédéric Bastiat
Science & Technology
Climate change: Kyoto’s last stand
Hydrogen-powered cars: Replacing gas with a gas
The origins of malaria: Following the plough
Bacteria and ore-formation: Goldbugs
Books & Arts
Air travel: The way we fly now
A philosopher’s letters: Love, Bertie
Summer movies: Hothouse flowers
Archaeology: Digging for truth
Simone Weil and Rosa Parks: Two kinds of heroism
Daniel Ellsberg: Treachery, egotism or bravery?
New fiction: Not amused
Immigration: No entry
Correction
Obituary
Katharine Graham
Economic and Financial Indicators
Money and interest rates
Oil reserves
Commodity price index
Stockmarkets
Trade, exchange rates and budgets
The world’s biggest companies
Overview
Output, demand and jobs
Prices and wages
Emerging-Market Indicators
The Economist poll of forecasters
Overview
Economy
Financial markets
