2018-04-20 所属栏目:经济学人双语版|经济学人下载

Science and Technology
科技Peopling the Americas: Checkpoint
迁徙美洲：检查站The first migrants to the new world had to wait 8000 years to be admitted.
新大陆的第一批移民在8000年

2018-04-19 所属栏目:经济学人双语版|经济学人下载

To ensure that the platforms do not favour their own products, oversight groups could be set up to deliberate on complaints from rivals
要确保平台不偏袒自己的产品，可以设立监督小组

2018-04-18 所属栏目:经济学人双语版|经济学人下载

The European Commission has accused Google of using control of Android, its mobile operating system, to give its own apps a leg up.
欧盟委员会指控谷歌利用其移动操作系统安卓预装自家

2018-04-17 所属栏目:经济学人双语版|经济学人下载

The platforms have become so dominant because they benefit from “network effects”.
这些平台之所以能够称霸，原因在于“网络效应”。Size begets size: the more sellers Amazon, say,

2018-04-16 所属栏目:经济学人双语版|经济学人下载

Leaders
领导者Taming the titans
驯服巨人Google, Facebook and Amazon are increasingly dominant. How should they be controlled?
谷歌、Facebook和亚马逊的统治力越来越强。该如何控制它

2018-04-16 所属栏目:经济学人双语版|经济学人下载

As our Technology Quarterly in this issue explains, the pace of research into BCIs and the scale of its ambition are increasing.
正如本期的《科技季刊》所诠释的那样，对BCI的研究步伐

2018-04-13 所属栏目:经济学人双语版|经济学人下载

Leaders
领导者The next frontier
下一个前沿地带Brain-computer interfaces may change what it means to be human.
脑机接口可能改变成为人类的意义。Technologies are often billed as tr

2018-04-12 所属栏目:经济学人双语版|经济学人下载

Still, the paper contains essential insights which should frame discussion of data's role in the economy.
尽管如此，这篇论文仍然包含一些深刻的见解，它们应当成为数据在经济中的角

2018-04-12 所属栏目:经济学人双语版|经济学人下载

Investment has also followed a surge in profits, reflecting stronger GDP growth, as it tends to.
投资也随之出现了一波利润的上涨，反映了GDP增长往往会有的那种越来越强劲。As workers

2018-04-11 所属栏目:经济学人双语版|经济学人下载

To tackle these problems, they have a radical proposal.
为了解决这些问题，他们提出一项激进的建议。Rather than being regarded as capital, data should be treated as labour—and

2018-04-11 所属栏目:经济学人双语版|经济学人下载

The proposed tax cuts are paid for by bigger budget deficits, a fiscal stimulus that is ill-timed given the business cycle.
计划中的减税要由更大的预算赤字来买单，这是一种在给定的商

2018-04-10 所属栏目:经济学人双语版|经济学人下载

Yet the economy is not in immediate danger.
然而，经济体并非处于迫在眉睫的危险之中。And the maturity of the business cycle cuts both ways.
而且，商业周期的成熟把这两种情况都排除了

2018-04-10 所属栏目:经济学人双语版|经济学人下载

Leaders
领导者The American economy: Can the Trump boom last?
美国经济：特朗普的繁荣能持久吗？America's president is not the architect of American strength. But in the short term

2018-04-09 所属栏目:经济学人双语版|经济学人下载

They also hoover up valuable data from users through the use of tools like reCAPTCHA, which ask visitors to solve problems that are easy for humans but hard for AIs, such as deciph

2018-04-09 所属栏目:经济学人双语版|经济学人下载

In fact, people who are against tax in general ought to be less hostile to inheritance taxes than other sorts.
实际上，反对税收的人总的来说，对继承税比对其他税应该少一些敌意。Howe

2018-04-08 所属栏目:经济学人双语版|经济学人下载

However, in 2017, it is not clear exactly how decisive a role inheritance plays in the entrenchment of the hereditary elite.
不过，在2017年，遗产税在世袭精英堡垒中扮演的是一个具有

2018-04-08 所属栏目:经济学人双语版|经济学人下载

Such levies pit two vital liberal principles against each other.
这类征税置自由主义的两项关键原则于相互冲突之中。One is that governments should leave people to dispose of their we

2018-04-04 所属栏目:经济学人双语版|经济学人下载

Finance and Economics
财经Free Exchange: The digital proletariat
自由交流：数字无产者Economists propose a radical solution to the problems posed by artificial intelligence.
针对

2018-04-04 所属栏目:经济学人双语版|经济学人下载

Leaders
领导者The case for taxing death
为向死亡征税而辩How to balance people's desire to bequeath assets with the unfairness of inheritance.
如何用继承的不公平去平衡人们对遗赠

2018-04-03 所属栏目:经济学人双语版|经济学人下载

Similarly, long-run returns provide support for the grand theory of inequality set out in 2013 by Thomas Piketty, a French economist, who suggested (based in part on his own data-g

2018-04-03 所属栏目:经济学人双语版|经济学人下载

But low rates of return also mean that government-debt burdens may prove easier to manage than thought—and perhaps that government borrowing could be used more aggressively i

2018-03-27 所属栏目:经济学人双语版|经济学人下载

Theirs is the first such data set to gather all of that information for so many countries over so long a period.
他们的成果是收集这么多国家在这么长的时间内的所有这种信息的第一批这

2018-03-26 所属栏目:经济学人双语版|经济学人下载

Finance and Economics
财经Free Exchange: Many happy returns
自由交流：丰厚回报A new data trove helps reshape how the economy is understood.
新的数据宝藏有助于重塑经济体被如何理解

2018-03-22 所属栏目:经济学人双语版|经济学人下载

Previous American presidents supported despots for reasons of cold-war realpolitik. ( “He's a bastard, but he's our bastard,” as Harry Truman is reputed to have said of a

2018-03-21 所属栏目:经济学人双语版|经济学人下载

Furthermore, Mr Trump has yet to be tested by a crisis.
再者，特朗普尚未经受过一次危机的考验。Level-headed generals may advise him, but he is the commander-in-chief, with a temper