The Economist
Audio content from The Economist magazine, including interviews with journalists and experts on world politics, business, finance, economics, science, technology, culture and the arts.
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Vince Cable of the Liberal Democrats
An epochal change?
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Telecoms in emerging markets
Special report: Telecoms in emerging markets
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Bill Clinton on Philanthropy
The financial collapse of 2009 should spur innovative global philanthropy and environmental action, not halt it
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Ayaan Hirsi Ali on Muslim women
Culture, not poverty, is to blame for violence against Muslim women, explains a campaigner against anti-female violence
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The Schumpeter column
Our new column on business and management aims to be creative, and perhaps a bit destructive too
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Roy Smith on the financial crisis
A former Goldman Sachs partner says that derivatives and hedge funds are great innovations, not the cause of this crisis
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Fiscal policy
Our economics editor and correspondent discuss fiscal rules and easing concerns over rising debts
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The dilemma of Skellig Michael
Is reconstruction part of responsible conservation? An unholy row over a holy Christian site
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A special report on Indonesia
A decade ago Indonesia was on the brink of catastrophe. Things have taken a dramatic turn for the better, says Simon Long
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Paul Courant on Google books
The University of Michigan's librarian on why Google's effort to digitise forgotten books is preservation, not theft
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Tobias Harris on Japan's election
The author of the blog Observing Japan on the youth vote, the future of the LDP and the move towards a two-party system
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The future of central banking
Inflation gets a bum rap, but it may be useful. Our economics editor and correspondent look ahead
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Your correspondent on GM and BT
Too many retirees and too few workers threaten large companies such as GM and BT, and spell the end of an industrial model
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Dick Armey on health-care reform
A former House majority leader on the Democrats' lust for power, the tyranny of Medicare and juvenile political discourse
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Abdullah Abdullah on the election
Hamid Karzai's main rival for Afghanistan's presidency on corruption, insurgency and why he thinks he can
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A hiatus for quantitative easing
Our US Economics editor explains quantitative easing, a strategy that has very few precedents
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Italy's southern headache
Our correspondent in Rome talks about money and the mafia with a southerner, a northerner and a pundit
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Whither Iraq?
Our correspondent in Baghdad on unresolved sectarian tensions and the emergence of a repressive state
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Usama Hasan on democratic Islam
The imam of a London mosque on apostasy, free speech and the lost spirit of scientific inquiry in the Islamic world
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Defending (some) sex offenders
Sarah Geraghty, a human rights lawyer in Georgia, argues that America's sex-offender laws punish too many too harshly
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