Britain and the Nordic world: The strongest girls in the world
ALMOST exactly a year ago, I found myself reporting the fuss in Brussels about the failure of the Lisbon Strategy, the European Union's 10-year plan to make Europe "the most dynamic and competitive...
View ArticleInternational: The road to Rio
UK Only Article: standard article Fly Title: International Rubric: Another effort to save the planet Main image: At your service At your service The good news...
View ArticleThe new rules of innovation: Need, speed, and greed
A VISIT to Stockholm's Nobel museum inspired Vijay Vaitheeswaran, our global correspondent, to write his latest book. He talks about a world of 7 billion innovators in waiting
View ArticleCity rankings: Hong Kong's best
HONG KONG is the “best city” in the world, according to the winning entry in a competition devised by the Economist Intelligence Unit (EIU) and BuzzData, a data-sharing company. Competitors were asked...
View ArticlePhoto apps: That pseudovintage feel
INSTAGRAM takes a perfect, crisp image from a smartphone and runs it through filters that crop it into a square and artificially wilt the photo to look as if it were taken with a 1970s snapshot camera....
View ArticleFood waste: Clean plates
UK Only Article: standard article Issue: Four more years? Fly Title: Food waste Rubric: Too much food gets thrown away Main image: A neglected feast A...
View ArticleThe Economist: Digital highlights, December 15th 2012
Mr Mo’s dinner jacketMo Yan, the first Chinese citizen to win the Nobel prize for literature, has been criticised for showing too much—and too little— deference to his government. Before his date in...
View ArticleCreativity: Cultural revolution
UK Only Article: standard article Issue: Northern lights Fly Title: Creativity Rubric: One of the world’s blandest regions has become one of its most creative...
View ArticleSweden's riots: Is the integration of immigrants failing?
HUNDREDS of cars set on fire, a school in flames and angry youths hurling stones at the police. This is not the banlieue in France but suburbs in supposedly peaceful Sweden. Six nights of arson and...
View ArticleSweden’s riots: A blazing surprise
UK Only Article: standard article Issue: The strange rebirth of liberal England Fly Title: Sweden’s riots Rubric: A Scandinavian idyll is disrupted by arson and...
View ArticleStart-ups in Sweden: Standing out without showing it
SWEDES don’t like to boast. In private this may be a pleasant trait. But in the highly competitive world of technology start-ups—and the places where they cluster (“ecosystems” in the lingo)—it is a...
View ArticleSweden and America: A president’s first-ever visit
UK Only Article: standard article Issue: Fight this war, not the last one Fly Title: Sweden and America Rubric: Star-struck enthusiasm for Barack Obama...
View ArticleMobile payments: Swedish ambition
MOBILE payment platforms have suffered several false starts over the past few years. The Economist noted that usage of mobile wallets, where smartphones can be used to pay...
View ArticleAstrophysics: Gotcha!
ONE of the reasons science is so powerful is its ability to predict the existence of things long before they can be confirmed by experiment. To take just the most recent, and famous, example, the...
View ArticleQ&A: Lukas Moodysson: Happy returns
LUKAS MOODYSSON, a Swedish poet and novelist, made his debut as a film screenwriter-director in 1998 with “Show Me Love”—a lesbian teenage romance that beat Abdellatif Kechiche’s “Blue Is The Warmest...
View ArticlePopping property bubbles: Choosing the right pin
UK Only Article: standard article Issue: That sinking feeling (again) Fly Title: Popping property bubbles Rubric: House prices in Europe are losing touch with...
View ArticleSwedish submarine hunt: What lies beneath
IT WAS as though the cold war had never ended. A hazy shape spotted by island residents in the southern Stockholm archipelago on October 17th quickly prompted suspicions of an incursion by a...
View ArticleSweden’s submarine hunt: Echoes of the cold war
UK Only Article: standard article Issue: The world’s biggest economic problem Fly Title: Sweden’s submarine hunt Rubric: The frustrating search for a suspected...
View ArticleEntrepreneurship: Quietly doing well
UK Only Article: UK article only Issue: Putin’s war on the West Fly Title: Entrepreneurship Rubric: The government isn’t touting it, but its record on...
View ArticleManhood: Men adrift
UK Only Article: standard article Issue: The weaker sex Fly Title: Manhood Rubric: Badly educated men in rich countries have not adapted well to trade,...
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