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AUGUST
8TH
–
14TH 2015
Economist.com
Tutankhamun’s last secret
Set innovation free!
Time to fix
the patent system
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The world this week
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On the cover
Ideas fuel the economy.
Today’s patent systems are a
rotten way of rewarding them:
leader, page 11. Patents are
protected by governments
because they are thought to
promote innovation. But
there is plenty of evidence
that they do not, page 50
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Leaders
Innovation
Time to fix patents
Polish politics
The German test
China’s leaders
Party on the beach
Financial supervision
One to rule them all
Science’s mysteries
Life, the multiverse and
everything
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Asia
North Korea’s wealthy
Bread and circuses
Politics in Australia
Choppergate
History books in Taiwan
Examiner examined
India’s north-east
The spoils of peace
Religion in Indonesia
With God on whose side?
Banyan
America’s fading power
Letters
16 On Jonathan Pollard,
Singapore, families,
America’s South, Britain
and Europe
United States
Climate change
Hotter than August
The wisdom of crowds
Sound of the Trump
Gay marriage
To have and to hold
The western drought
Concrete oasis
Brooklyn, the myth
Still bearded
Ferguson a year on
Some kind of normal
Lexington
The politics of the Iran deal
The Americas
Canada’s election
Long, but not boring
The Great Lakes
The problem with
toothpaste
Brazil’s space programme
Ten, nine, ten...
Bello
What is the point of Unasur?
China
37 Secret meetings
Leaders at the beach
38 Urban floods
Desperate for drains
Middle East and Africa
Services in the Arab world
Do-it-yourself
Israel and the West Bank
Taking on the settlers
Yemen’s civil war
The ground war begins
Egypt
A bigger, better Suez Canal
South Africa’s courts
Judges uncowed
Saving the rhino
A dilemma of horns
Europe
Germany and Europe
Strict order
Press freedom in Germany
Wiki treason
Poland’s Law and Justice
Less crazy now
Doping in athletics
All that glisters
Turkey’s fractious politics
Fighting on two fronts
Migrants in Calais
Learning from the Jungle
Jeremy Corbyn
The front-runner to be Labour’s
next leader may be on the
party’s hard left, but he is no
radical: Bagehot, page 49
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China
The world should worry
more about its politics than its
economy: leader, page 12. The
country’s leaders take to the
beach to ponder an unsettled
outlook, page 37
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Science
Experiment and
contemplation have remade
the world, but scientists are not
finished yet: leader, page 14.
In the first of six briefs looking
at unsolved mysteries, we ask
how life got going and whether
it exists on other planets,
pages 68-69. The race to crack
the genetic code, page 71
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