《经济学人》是一份由伦敦经济学人报纸有限公司出版的杂志，创办于1843年9月，创办人詹姆士·威尔逊。杂志的大多数文章写得机智，幽默，有力度，严肃又不失诙谐，并且注重于如何在最小的篇幅内告诉读者最多的信息。该杂志又以发明巨无霸指数闻名，是社会精英必不可少的读物。该杂志英文电子版可通过移动App、网站或者有声版阅读每周完整内容。
杂志主要关注政治和商业方面的新闻，但是每期也有一两篇针对科技和艺术的报导，以及一些书评。杂志中所有文章都不署名，而且往往带有鲜明的立场，但又处处用事实说话。主编们认为：写出了什么东西，比出自谁的手笔更重要。从2012年1月28日的那一期杂志开始《经济学人》杂志开辟了中国专栏，为有关中国的文章提供更多的版面。2018年12月，世界品牌实验室发布《2018世界品牌500强》榜单，经济学人排名第381。
经济学人杂志被禁了!
2010.09.21]《经济学人》的审查:封杀
2009年1月以来,《经济学人》已经被190多个发行国中的12个国家禁止或审查,而书报摊的发行(相对于订购)本尤为危险。印度(我们的列表中唯一的民主国家)已经审查了31期,乍看上去像是最糟糕的罪魁祸首。然而(应该考虑到)由于边界争端,它的审查制度包括有关克什米尔的地图上的“非法”标记。中国则更不近人情。经销商销毁发行本或移除包含有争议的政治内容的文章而台湾地图通常被封杀。在斯里兰卡,有涉及到该国报道的书报摊发行本及订阅本都可能在海关就已被没收。它们在几周之后才允许发表(有时早一些,如果该报道也被另一则新闻来源捅出来的话)。除此之外,马来西亚的信息部门封杀一些它认为可能冒犯穆斯林的报道。在利比亚,2009年八月末到九月初的连续四个版本被没收,首要原因是对卡扎菲(利比亚领导人)的评论。图像也能促发(封杀)行为。去年封面为亚当和夏娃的圣诞节专刊被5个国家审查。马来西亚官方遮掩了夏娃的胸部。巴基斯坦反对亚当的图像,认为其触犯了描绘了可兰经人物的禁忌。
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A revolution in healthcare is coming
Welcome to Doctor You
Feb 1st 2018
NO WONDER they are called “patients”.When people enter the health-care systems of rich countries today, they know what they will get: prodding doctors, endless tests, baffling jargon, rising costs and, above all, long waits. Some stoicism will always be needed, because health care is complex and diligence matters. But frustration is boiling over.This week three of the biggest names in American business—Amazon, Berkshire Hathaway and JPMorgan Chase—announced a new venture to provide better, cheaper health care for their employees. A fundamental problem with today’s system is that patients lack knowledge and control. Access to data can bestow both.
The internet already enables patients to seek online consultations when and where it suits them. You can take over-the-counter tests to analyse your blood, sequence your genome and check on the bacteria in your gut. Yet radical change demands a shift in emphasis, from providers to patients and from doctors to data. That shift is happening. Technologies such as the smartphone allow people to monitor their own health. The possibilities multiply when you add the crucial missing ingredients—access to your own medical records and the ability easily to share information with those you trust. That allows you to reduce inefficiencies in your own treatment and also to provide data to help train medical algorithms. You can enhance your own care and everyone else’s, too.
jargon: the language used for a particular activity or by a particular group of people
stoicism: the quality or behavior of a person who accepts what happens without complaining or showing emotion
现在病人走进一家医院，都能预料到会是什么样的：仓促的医生，数不清的检测，看不懂的病例，涨不停的费用和无尽的等待... 病人的问题就是他们不清楚状况和缺乏对自己病情的控制
所以亚马逊和JPMorgan还有Berkshire Hathaway 成立了一个新的公司，为他们的员工提供更好更廉价的医疗
The doctor will be you now
Medical data may not seem like the type of kindling to spark a revolution. But the flow of information is likely to bear fruit in several ways. One is better diagnosis. Someone worried about their heart can now buy a watch strap containing a medical-grade monitor that will detect arrhythmias. Apps are vying to see if they can diagnose everything from skin cancer and concussion to Parkinson’s disease. Research is under way to see whether sweat can be analysed for molecular biomarkers without the need for an invasive blood test. Some think that changes in how quickly a person swipes a phone’s touchscreen might signal the onset of cognitive problems.
A second benefit lies in the management of complex diseases. Diabetes apps can change the way patients cope, by monitoring blood-glucose levels and food intake, potentially reducing long-run harm such as blindness and gangrene. Akili Interactive, a startup, plans to seek regulatory approval for a video game designed to stimulate an area of the brain implicated in attention-deficit hyperactivity disorder (see article).
医疗数据可能不会带来一个伟大的变革，但是会有非常多的好处，这四段分别讲了四个有用的地方，看经济学人重要的是看清楚文章的逻辑！
第一个好处是：更好地诊断
第二个好处是：管理复杂的疾病
Patients can also improve the efficiency of their care. Although health records are increasingly electronic, they are often still trapped in silos. Many contain data that machines cannot read. This can lead to delays in treatment, or worse. Many of the 250,000 deaths in America attributable to medical error each year can be traced to poorly co-ordinated care. With data at their fingertips, common standards to enable sharing and a strong incentive to get things right, patients are more likely to spot errors. On January 24th Apple laid out its plans to ask organisations to let patients use their smartphones to download their own medical records (see article).
A final benefit of putting patients in charge stems from the generation and aggregation of their data. Artificial intelligence (AI) is already being trained by a unit of Alphabet, Google’s parent company, to identify cancerous tissues and retinal damage. As patients’data stream from smartphones and “wearables”, they will teach AIs to do ever more. Future AIs could, for instance, provide automated medical diagnosis from a description of your symptoms, spot behavioural traits that suggest you are depressed or identify if you are at special risk of cardiac disease. The aggregation of data will also make it easier for you to find other people with similar diseases and to see how they responded to various treatments.
第三个好处是提高医疗效率
第四个好处是病人掌控自己的数据整合等
讲完了好处接下来讲坏处...
An Apple a day
As with all new technologies, pitfalls accompany the promise. Hucksters will launch apps that do not work. But with regulators demanding oversight of apps that present risks to patients, users will harm only their wallets. Not everyone will want to take active control of their own health care; plenty will want the professionals to manage everything.Fine. Data can be pored over by those who are interested, while those who are not can opt to share data automatically with trusted providers.
The benefits of new technologies often flow disproportionately to the rich. Those fears are mitigated by the incentives that employers, governments and insurers have to invest in cost-efficient preventive care for all. Alphabet has recently launched a firm called Cityblock Health, for example, which plans to trawl through patients’ data to provide better care for low-income city dwellers, many of them covered by Medicaid, an insurance programme for poorer Americans.
pitfall: a danger or problem that is hidden or not obvious at first
pore over: to read or study something very carefully
trawl: to search through something in order to find someone or something
很多先进的技术都是益了富人，因此这需要纳税人，政府和保险公司一起想出保障到所有人的医疗制度
Google在这方面有做出了努力，成立了一各公司Cityblock Health，为低收入人群提供更好的医疗！（真心觉得googlers 是为了人类进步而发展的公司...)
Other risks are harder to deal with.Greater transparency may encourage the hale and hearty not to take out health insurance. They may even make it harder for the unwell to find cover. Regulations can slow that process—by requiring insurers to ignore genetic data, for example—but not stop it. Security is another worry. The more patient data are analysed in the cloud or shared with different firms, the greater the potential threat of hacking or misuse. Almost a quarter of all data breaches in America happen in health care. Health firms should face stringent penalties if they are slapdash about security, but it is naive to expect that breaches will never happen.
Will the benefits of making data more widely available outweigh such risks? The signs are that they will. Plenty of countries are now opening up their medical records, but few have gone as far as Sweden. It aims to give all its citizens electronic access to their medical records by 2020; over a third of Swedes have already set up accounts. Studies show that patients with such access have a better understanding of their illnesses, and that their treatment is more successful. Trials in America and Canada have produced not just happier patients but lower costs, as clinicians fielded fewer inquiries. That should be no surprise. No one has a greater interest in your health than you do. Trust in Doctor You.
hale: healthy and strong, usually used in the phrase hale and hearty
一个坏处就是让那些身体情况良好的人不会再买保险，而让那些身体不好的人很难买到保险；还有分享的数据越多，就越有可能发生数据泄露和被黑客黑的可能
stringent: very strict or severe
slapdash: quick and careless
那分享这些医疗数据到底是不是利大于弊还是弊大于利？种种迹象标明是 利大于弊的！
总结：科技改变生活，本文是这期经济学人杂志的封面文章
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Lexile®Measure: 1100L - 1200L
Mean Sentence Length: 16.04
Mean Log Word Frequency: 3.16
Word Count: 1030
这篇文章的蓝思值是在1100-1200L， 适合英语专业大二的水平学习，是经济学人里比较简单的
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经济学人一共有这些版块
0 cover封面会给出四篇文章的标题，通常前三篇来自leaders社论
1.The world this week,一般包括三部分politics, business, Cal's cartion(Kal是经济学人漫画家的名字)，这部分属于全球要闻速读。
阅读建议: 注意《经济学人》是怎样用 简洁的语言，精准的用词，生动的细节 来概括新闻事件的。
3.Letters(一页纸，千字左右)，letters的作者是《经济学人》的读者，他们可能政府官员等重要人物，署名后会跟着印有职位；普通读者就只有署名了。
阅读建议:注意读者是怎样展开、论证或反驳一个观点的。可以 体会论证方法，收集论证句式。
4. Briefing:说是briefing实际算是深度报道，往往从leaders5篇文章中选一篇做深度分析。这部分是《经济学人》里单篇篇幅最长的内容，一般2-3页。
阅读建议: 学习《经济学人》怎样 充分展开一个论点 。推荐和leaders版块同主题文章一起阅读。注意 词汇，句式的灵活替换。
5.Asia; China; United States; The Americas; Middle East and Africa; Europe; Britain
有意思的特点:
①只有三个国家有自己的版块: 英国，美国，中国。
这三版块的专栏分别叫 Bagehot (Britain)— 白芝浩（Walter Bagehot），英国最著名的经济学家、政治社会学家和公法学家之一。后人认为，白芝浩是《经济学人》历史上最伟大的主编，“或许是《经济学人》的编辑们永远试图接近但无法超越的楷模”。为纪念他的卓越贡献，后来闻名于全世界的《经济学人》将其有关英国政治的专栏命名为“白芝浩专栏”。英国政治研究协会（Political Studies Association）每年给政治与公共行政领域的优秀论文颁发“白芝浩奖” )
Lexington (United States)—莱克星顿（列克星顿），美国马萨诸塞州一小镇，因美国独立战争在此打响而著名。
Analects (China)— 这个比较好理解，就是来自中国古代四书之一的《论语》。
②美国版块的文章数是中国版块的两倍。
③除了中国版块，The world this week, Leaders, Letters, Business等其他版块往往也会有关于中国的文章。
④每个版块一般都会有一篇专栏文章。
Bello（Americas）–这个Americas本来指拉美，《经济学人》用它指包括加拿大，但不包括美国的南美。贝约是哥伦比亚中部城市，也是自治市，用来比喻美洲板块。
Baobab (Africa & Middle East)— 这个词同样是一种树--猴面包树 (很有意思的名字)，这种树在非洲很普遍，树名的由来，在非洲有两种说法。一种说，这是黑非洲土著人的称谓，意为"瓶状树"。另一种说法，认为这是从一个阿拉伯语词汇演变而来。这样，中东和非洲都包括进去了。这个专栏貌似已经没有了。
Banyan (Asia)—是TE于2009年4月新推出的亚洲事务专栏，选择菩提（Banyan）作为专栏名，是因为TE认为菩提最能代表泛亚形象。一则菩提树与佛教渊源颇深，佛祖释迦牟尼在菩提树下静坐7个日夜后，大彻大悟；再则由于印度西部古吉拉特商人往往在菩提树树荫下买卖交易，菩提树也因此而得名，所以TE认为菩提树是亚洲精神文明和物质文明的双重象征。在亚洲，菩提还与公共事务有着千丝万缕的联系，也是他们选择的理由之一。
Charlemagne (Europe)— 查理曼大帝（公元742---814年），或称为查理，卡尔大帝，法兰克王国加洛林王朝国王，神圣罗马帝国的奠基人。他建立了那囊括西欧大部分地区的庞大帝国。公元800年，由罗马教皇加冕神圣罗马帝国开国皇帝，号为罗马人皇帝。他在行政、司法、军事制度及经济生产等方面都有杰出的建树，并大力发展文化教育事业。是他引入了欧洲文明，他被后世尊称为“欧洲之父”。欧洲板块因此就选用了这个名字。
阅读建议:聚焦自己感兴趣的区域或话题; 偶尔看看陌生的区域和话题; 中国版块。
8.Technology Quarterly*(*表示不是每期都有的内容)。
就某个科技话题深度探讨。
阅读建议:按兴趣阅读; 适合挑战用较短时间深入理解一个陌生的科技话题。
9.International 一般2-3页，1-2篇文章，主题是各国读者能产生共鸣的话题。
阅读建议: 探索阅读兴趣，注意在讨论不同国家地区情况时的 同意替换表达 。很多话题可以作为和外国朋友做 深度交流的绝佳素材 。
10 Business 一般7-8篇文章
有意思的特点:
①这是唯一个个有两个专栏的板块Bartleby-新专栏，侧重职场内容
经典专栏Schumpeter，侧重管理
Schumpeter (Business) — 约瑟夫·熊彼特(Joseph Alois Schumpeter)，或译为熊彼德是一位有深远影响的政治经济学家，因主张自由主义资本经济制度，与凯恩斯理论间相互对立，虽然他的经济学说并不如凯因斯在生前就获得很大的回响，但研究者咸认为他对于经济学科的思想史有着很大的贡献，于哈佛任教期间引介计量经济理论的研究，竖立该校于经济研究的重镇地位。
②一般会有1-2篇关于中国商业或互联网的文章。
11.Finance and economics
12.Science and technology
14.Economic and financial indicators
共同点:
①专业性较强，最适合相关领域的从业者阅读。
②为了照顾到普通读者，专业术语往往用简单的语言解释。
阅读建议:偶尔可以挑战自己的阅读能力，尤其是快速获取信息(scanning&skimming的)能力。
结论
从自己的兴趣出发，只读感兴趣的。
初读《经济学人》坚持阅读某一版块即可。
每个版块适合不同的学习目标，按需阅读。
