The Economist (US) back issues from December 2000:
Barak's deadline for peace.(Leaders)(A peace agreement would be Ehud Barak's strongest weapon in the Israeli election called for next spring. Can he be helped to get one?)(Brief Article)
Dec 02, 2000
Letters; On the euro, CEO s, Britain's National Lottery, Swiss and English, America's election, work.(Letters)
Dec 02, 2000
MONEY AND INTEREST RATES.(Financial Indicators)(Brief Article)
Dec 02, 2000
OUTPUT, DEMAND AND JOBS.(Economic Indicators)(Brief Article)
Dec 02, 2000
PRICES AND WAGES.(Economic Indicators)(Brief Article)
Dec 02, 2000
Offer to Readers.(Survey)
Dec 02, 2000
The slow road to reform; Reform in Latin America.(Special)(After a decade or more of liberalisation, democracy and the economy are thriving in some Latin American countries and struggling in others. Why?)
Dec 02, 2000
Can the Kiwi economy fly? Evaluating New Zealand's economic reforms.(Business Special)(Recent claims that New Zealand's economic experiment has failed, and that it therefore needs to change course, do not stand up)
Dec 02, 2000
Theodore Monod.(Obituary)(Theodore Andre Monod, a naturalist sage, died on November 22nd, aged 98)(Brief Article)(Obituary)
Dec 02, 2000
Santa's re-workshop; Computer hardware; Computer hackers and their toys.(Science and Technology)(Give a computer to a hacker and he will try to improve it-even if it comes in the shape of a purple dinosaur)
Dec 02, 2000
The New York Strangeler; Particle physics; Not the end of the world.(Relativistic Heavy Ion Collider research)(Science and Technology)(Brief Article)
Dec 02, 2000
How not to abolish leprosy; The fight against leprosy.(Science and Technology)(Leprosy persists among the world's poor despite a decade of the WHO's best attempts at eliminating it. Will the stalemate ever break?)(World Health Organization)(Brief Article)
Dec 02, 2000
Save the wail; Whales change their tune.(Science and Technology)(Brief Article)
Dec 02, 2000
STOCKMARKETS.(Financial Indicators)(international statistics)(Brief Article)
Dec 02, 2000
Half-way there.(Survey)(In only 15 years, Portugal has halved the big gap in living standards between itself and the rest of Europe. Finishing the job, says Patrick Lane, could take longer)
Dec 02, 2000;
A funny way to run a country.(Survey)(Minority governments have to weigh principle against survival)(Portugal)
Dec 02, 2000
Too much of a good thing.(Survey)(The public sector needs slimming down)(Portugal)
Dec 02, 2000
Back to its roots; Thomson-CSF; France's Thomson eyes America.(Business)(Europe's third-largest defence company wants to build bridges across the Atlantic as cross-border collaborations multiply)(Brief Article)
Dec 02, 2000
Bra wars; The bra business and technology.(Business)(Brief Article)
Dec 02, 2000
Big business bows to global warming; Energy firms and global warming.(Business)(Brief Article)
Dec 02, 2000
The world this week.(News Summaries)(Brief Article)
Dec 02, 2000
TRADING PARTNERS.(Emerging-Market Indicators)(Brief Article)(Statistical Data Included)
Dec 02, 2000
Bad times; Mozambique; Protest in Mozambique.(International)(Brief Article)
Dec 02, 2000
Life after Jerry; Ghana; All change in Ghana.(International)(The departure of the man who has ruled Ghana for 20 years does not mean just the arrival of a new president)(Brief Article)
Dec 02, 2000
Ehud Barak's race for peace; Barak's new deadline for a deal.(International)(The Israeli prime minister's best chance of winning the early election he has just called is to make it a referendum on a peace agreement. But how to get that agreement?)
Dec 02, 2000
The spectre stalking the sub-Sahara; Tracking the AIDS epidemic.(International)(Brief Article)
Dec 02, 2000
Blessed drops; Kenya; Rain ends Kenya's drought.(International)(Brief Article)
Dec 02, 2000
Beyond The Hague.(Leaders)(The collapse of last weekend's UN summit on global warming is not the disaster that many claim)(Brief Article)
Dec 02, 2000
Fox's political challenge.(Leaders)(Sustaining Mexico's reforms requires more than slick marketing)(Brief Article)
Dec 02, 2000
Win!*.(Leaders)(It is time for Al Gore to concede, and for George W. Bush to be free to plan his new administration properly)(Brief Article)
Dec 02, 2000
Responsible regionalism.(Leaders)(Progress towards free global trade must not be side-tracked by bilateral or regional trade agreements)(Brief Article)
Dec 02, 2000
Europe's choice.(Leaders)(An enlarged European Union must learn to accommodate different ideas of what "Europe" should be. If that means "two systems", so be it)(Brief Article)
Dec 02, 2000
ECONOMY.(Emerging-Market Indicators)
Dec 02, 2000
Old left, new right, no centre; Romania; A president for Romania.(Europe)(Brief Article)
Dec 02, 2000
The latest mad-cow panic; Mad cows multiply.(Europe)(Brief Article)
Dec 02, 2000
Shaping the Union; A new shape for the European Union?(Europe)(The European Union's summit in Nice next week is meant to prepare the ground for admitting the countries of Central Europe to the Union. But it may also hasten its division into an inner and outer core)
Dec 02, 2000
Short change; Japanese savers; Japanese savers short-changed.(Finance and Economics)(Brief Article)
Dec 02, 2000
Born to be trimmed? Hedge funds; Well-trimmed hedge funds.(Finance and Economics)(Hedge funds are wooing institutional investors. But such ambitions might be too big for them)
Dec 02, 2000
Sorted? Lazard; Lazard's new structure.(Finance and Economics)(Brief Article)
Dec 02, 2000
A Jay for today; The Jay Gatsbys of today.(Finance and Economics)(Brief Article)
Dec 02, 2000
The ethics gap.(Finance and Economics)(Eco-fundamentalists are especially prone to accuse economists of moral blindness. They are partly right, but not in the way they suppose)(Brief Article)
Dec 02, 2000
Correction.(Finance and Economics)(Brief Article)(Correction Notice)
Dec 02, 2000
Rainy-day blues; Nobody's saving for a rainy day.(Finance and Economics)(Households in most rich economies are saving a declining slice of their income. Does this matter?)(Statistical Data Included)
Dec 02, 2000
Opening the doors; Cazenove goes public.(Finance and Economics)(Brief Article)
Dec 02, 2000
Tasting its own medicine; World Bank; The World Bank's budgetary woes.(Finance and Economics)(Brief Article)
Dec 02, 2000
LABOUR MARKETS.(Economic Indicators)(Brief Article)(Statistical Data Included)
Dec 02, 2000
FISCAL HEALTH.(Financial Indicators)(Brief Article)(Statistical Data Included)
Dec 02, 2000
The permissive Dutch, in life and death.(controversy over euthanasia law)(Europe)(Brief Article)
Dec 02, 2000
Angela Merkel, Germany's gritty conservative; Charlemagne; Charlemagne: Angela Merkel, Germany's Christian Democrat.(Europe)(Brief Article)(Column)
Dec 02, 2000
The tension rises again; Serbia and Kosovo; Could Serbia's Milosevic come back?(Slobodan Milosevic)(Europe)(Brief Article)
Dec 02, 2000
FINANCIAL MARKETS.(Emerging-Market Indicators)(Brief Article)
Dec 02, 2000
Clarification.(Britain)(Correction Notice)
Dec 02, 2000
No big deal; Youth unemployment; Getting the young to work.(Britain)(The government has hit one of its key manifesto targets-to get a quarter of a million young people off benefit and into work. But there is less to this than meets the eye)(Brief Article)
Dec 02, 2000
Business this week.(News Summaries)
Dec 02, 2000
COMMODITY PRICE INDEX.(Economic Indicators)(Brief Article)
Dec 02, 2000
Politics by other means; Mixing football and politics.(Britain)(Brief Article)
Dec 02, 2000
Help that hurts; Trauma and stress; Soldiers and psychiatrists.(Books and Arts)(Review)
Dec 02, 2000;
Reinventing Marconi; Business Britain: Marconi.(Britain)(In three years George Simpson has turned Britain's stodgiest industrial company into a high-tech communications business)(Company Profile)
Dec 02, 2000
The creative-writing man; Sir Malcolm Bradbury; Malcolm Bradbury: creative writing in the fens.(Britain)(Brief Article)(Obituary)
Dec 02, 2000
The metropolitan line; Bagehot; Bagehot: Why metropolitans are bad.(Britain)(Brief Article)
Dec 02, 2000
Battle of the newsagents.(Britain)(Brief Article)
Dec 02, 2000
Contract killing; Health; Tying down the doctors.(Britain)(A dispute over doctors' contracts undermines the government's claim to have embraced private health-care)(Brief Article)
Dec 02, 2000
Getting wider; North-south divide; The widening north-south gap.(Britain)(Brief Article)
Dec 02, 2000
Phoney war; Lords reform; The Lords bite back.(relations between House of Commons and House of Lords)(Britain)(Brief Article)
Dec 02, 2000
Clouds over the countryside; Cash for the countryside.(Britain)(Running the countryside is about getting a balance between preserving beauty and creating jobs. The agricultural crisis has shifted that balance. Expect more suburbanisation)(Brief Article)
Dec 02, 2000