Economist (US), The

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Articles in March, 1998 issue of Economist (US), The

• Hells Angels, crime and Canada. (war between biker gangs in Quebec)
• India as a nuclear power: a waste of nationalist pride.(Brief Article)(Editorial)
• Hear no evil.(Pres. Clinton invokes executive privilege)(includes other international political news)(Brief Article)
• Eddie's choice: growth and inflation. (Bank of England Governor Eddie George votes to keep interest rates down)(Britain: Budget 98)(Brief Article)
• Dirt poor. (poor countries and their relentless environmental problems)(A Survey of Development and the Environment)
  by Litvin, Daniel
• Much ado about openness. (influence of free trade on the growth of national economies)
• The American dream, virtually. (Geocities Internet community has grown immensely by offering web hosting and attracting advertisers)
• Smooth bigotry: France.(Bruno Megret, second-in-command of France's right-wing National Front, is becoming more influential in national politics)(Brief Article)
• Storm on the Yangzi.(corruption and incompetence plague China's Three Gorges Dam project)(Brief Article)
• Here we go? Sport in America. (the third season of Major League Soccer may be pivotal if the sport is to establish itself in the US)
• China wriggling free, or hooked? By signing two human-rights covenants, China's leaders may have unwittingly made trouble for themselves.(Brief Article)(Editorial)
• More of the same.(new misconduct allegations against Bill Clinton; US cancer rate declining; includes other brief items)(Politics This Week)(Brief Article)
• Sotheby's: The Inside Story.(Brief Article)
• Financial indicators.(Brief Article)(Illustration)
• Mutants in pinstripes.(merger of NordLB and Bankgesellschaft Berlin)(Brief Article)
• Digital doubts.(plans for digital television in United Kingdom)(Brief Article)
• Crossed borders.(Scottish income tax law)(Brief Article)
• Why the Orthodox are heterodox.(Greece is united with Serbia by the Orthodox religion, but the sanctions imposed on Serbia may effect Greeks who do business in Serbia)(Brief Article)
• India: hopeful Hindus.(Bharatiya Janata Party hopes to form a minority governing coalition)(Brief Article)
• Mack McLarty, friend of Bill: embracing Latin America.(United States embassador to the region)(Brief Article)
• Magnates and metaphysics: what links Wittgenstein with Hitler, Stalin and Rupert Murdoch? Nothing has been proved - yet.(new book accuses Ludwig Wittgenstein of Nazi sympathies; press freedom and the Murdoch empire)(Editorial)(Brief Article)
• Death, but no end.(Clinton crony James McDougal dies in prison; includes other brief items)(Politics This Week)(Brief Article)
• Exchange rates. (also includes statistics on stock markets, money and interest rates, trade, exchange and reserves)(Economic indicators)(Illustration)
• Prospects for lunar prospectors: water on the moon. (the discovery of ice on the moon's polar regions)
• Europe grows apart: eleven European economies have converged enough to merge their currencies into one, but a single monetary policy may not fit all.
• County on the edge: Cornwall.(the closing of the South Crofty tin mine typifies the economic difficulties of Cornwall, England)(Brief Article)
• The old school.(modern art curator Pontus Hulten)(Brief Article)
• On the money: supermarket banking. (bank accounts at British supermarkets)
• Oil shocked: the fall in the oil price has stopped for the moment. But these days, oil shocks hurt producers more than consumers.
• Roublette. (currency rates in Belarus)
• A party spending: Japan. (the ruling Liberal Democratic Party announces a $124 billion spending plan to help boost the Japanese economy)(Brief Article)
• All eyes on race course road: India faces unstable government whichever party takes power.(Brief Article)
• Deadly drug? That's coca leaf.(failure of war on coca growing in Bolivia)(Brief Article)
• Situation normal: Japan's government is again backpedalling on financial deregulation.(Leaders)(Brief Article)(Editorial)
• Jostling for power.(Indian general election)(includes related international political items)(Politics This Week)(Brief Article)
• Thinking Ecologically: The Next Generation of Environmental Policy.(Brief Article)
• Round the non-camp fire. (homosexuals in the Boy Scouts)
• At last, a market for energy: the global energy business is changing faster than OPEC and some rich-country governments would like.(Brief Article)(Editorial)
• Bolder than usual.(Japan's economic stimulus package)(includes other international political news)(Brief Article)
• Brown shuffles the pack. (Gordon Brown's budget proposal)(Britain: Budget 98)
• Financial indicators. (developed nations)(Brief Article)(Illustration)
• Marry in haste. (merger of Nasdaq and American Stock Exchange)
• Jumbo-sized: Triton. (independent oil company Triton Energy plans to develop its own oil fields)(Brief Article)
• The EU's coming budgetary squeeze.(the admission of new countries to the European Union is expected to mean new budgetary restraints for all members)(Brief Article)
• Suharto hunkers down: Southeast Asia's giant continues its descent into chaos.(Indonesian president appoints new cabinet hostile to the International Monetary Fund)(Brief Article)
• Mississippi tries to lay its ghosts: race relations. (the state releases once-secret files of its Sovereignty Commission, which from 1956-77 managed covert operations against the civil rights movement)
• A presidency paralyzed.(Clinton sex scandal)(Editorial)(Brief Article)
• What the world is reading.(French and Italian best seller lists)(Bibliography)
• The People Vs Big Tobacco.
• Claudio Villas Boas.(advocate for Amazon Indians)(Obituary)(Brief Article)
• Figures of fun.(distortion in economic graphs with different scales)(Beating the Numbers)(Brief Article)
• Jolted.(improved management at Italy's state electric utility ENEL)(Brief Article)
• Labour's luvvies lost.(pop music stars criticize British welfare-to-work scheme)(Brief Article)
• A glitzy leg-up for Africa.(Sheikh Mohammed Al-Amoudi hosts an African trade and investment conference called the Addis Forum)(Brief Article)
• Suharto's family values.(mounting crisis in Indonesia)
• Brock agonistes.(conservative reporter David Brock apologizes to Clintons for starting press invasion of their private lives)(Brief Article)
• East Asia's new faultlines: the economic crisis is putting the region's security at risk.(Editorial)
• Magic ingredients: all the makings of a bright future are there, so don't go and spoil it all. (prospects for East Asian financial recovery)(Frozen Miracle: A Survey of East Asian Economies)
• Mancur Olson. (American economist and author of 'The Logic of Collective Action' and other writings)(Obituary)
• The market for regulation: would allowing companies to choose which authority oversees their issues of stocks and bonds make financial markets work better? (alternatives to Securities and Exchange Commission regulation)(Economics Focus)(Column)
• No option.(Oracle Corp., and other companies, have repriced stock options following a sharp decline in stock prices)(Brief Article)
• Russia's hotel from hell. (proposal to demolish and replace the Rossiya Hotel, long an eyesore)(Brief Article)
• Eisenstein: A Life in Conflict
• Wall Street's money machine: the stockmarket economy. (Finance and Economics)
• Year zero: the bill for the millennium bug keeps going up. (Year 2000 computer problem)
• France's right-wing disarray. (mainstream right-wing parties in France do not know what to do with the extremist-fascist National Front, which holds the balance of power in many regions)
• Tung constrained. (the New Chinese ruler of Hong Kong, Tung Chee-hwa, has been restrained in making major changes there)
• Staying home.(general strike in Zimbabwe)(Brief Article)
• In a glass, darkly: race relations. (Milton S. Eisenhower Foundation report on race relations)(United States)(Brief Article)
• Catastrophic Kosovo: the West must get tougher with Slobodan Milosevic. (Serbian police kill Albanians in Kosovo)(Leaders)(Brief Article)(Editorial)
• The threat to Kohl.(Germany's Social Democrats nominate Gerhard Schroder)(includes related international political items)(Politics This Week)(Brief Article)
• Is the Senate serious? (apparent chaos in United States legislative body)
• Trusting foreigners.(Nempuku invests half of its new pension funds in foreign funds)(includes other international financial news)(Brief Article)
• The American connection: Northern Ireland. (United Kingdom encourages United States' involvment in Britain's peace negotiations with Northern Ireland)(Britain)
• Yellow skies, smarting eyes. (air pollution in poor countries)(A Survey of Development and the Environment)
  by Litvin, Daniel
• The Social Animal.
• Adored no more. (Hoescht flounders under chief Jurgen Dormann's plans to split the German conglomerate into a group of world-class firms)(Face Value)
• The centre held: Denmark.(Poul Nyrup Rasmussen, of the Social Democrats, won a narrow victory in Denmark's March 1998 election, giving him a good chance of maintaining his control for four more years)(Brief Article)
• Prisoners of the divide.(political prisoners of South Korea)
• Great reforms, nice growth, but where are the jobs? Structural reforms have improved Latin America's economies, but they have not brought new jobs. How can that be done?

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