The rise of state capitalism

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Jan 21st, 2012

Leaders

Emerging-market multinationals
The rise of state capitalism (143)
The euro crisis returns
Salve Italia (58)
Taxing the rich in America
The politics of plutocracy (99)
Nuclear Iran
Not quite too late (45)
Corporate anonymity
Light and wrong (13)

Briefing

Booming Mongolia
Mine, all mine (61)

United States

Income inequality
Who exactly are the 1%? (141)
Optimal tax rates
Soak or swim (10)
Online piracy
Stopping SOPA (35)
Mexico’s drug war
Not so fast (49)
Red-light cameras
You’re on film (13)
Bankrupt schools
Studying on a shoestring (9)
Executive clemency
The pardoner’s tale (1)
Lexington
The Palmetto primary (26)

The Americas

Mexico’s do-nothing legislature
The siesta congress (83)
Guatemala’s new president
Quick march (7)
Canada’s oil industry
What goes around (33)

Asia

Taiwan’s elections
It’s all right, Ma (157)
Satire in South Korea
Lampooning the pols (7)
Urbanising China
A nation of city slickers (9)
Parental abduction in Japan
Child-snatchers (30)
Change in Myanmar
Follow my lead (7)
Banyan
A game of chicken (19)
Award: James Astill

Middle East and Africa

Sanctions and Iran
Beleaguered but still unbowed (18)
Iran’s isolation
A sad old city (3)
Shia Islam
A growing sense of bloody isolation (33)
Israel and Palestine
Toddling to talks about talks (146)
Israel and Azerbaijan
Odd but useful allies (21)
Education in South Africa
Still dysfunctional (10)
Protests in Nigeria
Let them have fuel (18)

Europe

Italy’s prime minister
A good professor in Rome (55)
The cruise-ship tragedy
Wrecked (10)
Russian protests
Putin’s people (18)
French politics
Down a notch (17)
Riots in Romania
Anger management (73)
Justice in Turkey
Not for some (22)
Justice in Spain
Investigating the investigator (14)
Charlemagne
And then there was one (241)

Britain

Town-centre retailing
Nation of shop critics (22)
John Lewis as a model
The feeling is mutual (7)
Extradition
The ties that bind (3)
Schools in Wales
Down in the valleys (9)
Labour’s fiscal rethink
Plan B Britain Only (2)
The Leveson inquiry
The Street of Shame responds Britain Only
Exports and the economy
Made in Britain Britain Only (2)
David Hockney
The beauty of the boring Britain Only (1)
Bagehot
Alex Salmond, Little Englander (52)
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International

Corporate anonymity
Ultimate privilege (36)
Demography and climate change
How to cut carbon emissions (5)
Dissent about prohibition
In narco veritas (6)

Special report: State capitalism

The visible hand(134)
Something old, something new(10)
State capitalism’s global reach
New masters of the universe(7)
A choice of models
Theme and variations(8)
Pros and cons
Mixed bag(9)
Going abroad
The world in their hands(6)
The long view
And the winner is…(17)

Business

Israeli technology companies
What next for the start-up nation? (11)
Demography and business in Israel
The promised land needs people (55)
Business in America
Glass half empty (17)
Research and development
Brain gain (34)
Television-making
Cracking up (4)
Aircraft leasing
Buy or rent? (10)
Opening a business in Brazil
Why make it simple? (24)
Tequila
Storm in a shot glass (9)
Schumpeter
The shackled boss (4)

Briefing

Energy in India
The future is black (18)

Finance and economics

American banks
Losing altitude (8)
Buttonwood
Not so smart (1)
Greece’s debt-holders
Volunteers wanted (45)
Austrian banks
Vienna 2.0
China’s economy
Two twists in the dragon’s tail (7)
Trade statistics
iPadded (3)
Free exchange
The hangover (6)

Science and technology

Exercise and longevity
Worth all the sweat (48)
Polio
A Rotary engine (17)
Forensic science
Ignorance is bliss (6)
Solar energy
Flower power (4)
The Richard Casement internship

Books and arts

The American presidency
Party of two (6)
Philip Larkin
Library book
French parents
Non, non and non (30)
Short stories
Of moose and men (1)
New film
The world at war (4)
New theatre: “Travelling Light”
The screen at the end of the world (2)
Clarification: Julian Assange

Obituary

Rauf Denktash (25)

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