Dec 6th 2014

Sheikhs v shale

Leaders

The new economics of oil

Sheikhs v shale

The economics of oil have changed. Some businesses will go bust, but the market will be healthier

Japan’s election

Abe’s last chance

Japan desperately needs economic reform; Shinzo Abe still offers the best chance of that

Nuclear power in China

Make haste slowly

China’s rush to build nuclear power plants is dangerous

The transformation of cities

A suburban world

The emerging world is becoming suburban. Its leaders should welcome that, but avoid the West’s mistakes

Regulating robotic aircraft

Free the drones

Drones have immense commercial potential—so long as regulators don’t try to tether them to the ground

Letters

On Ferguson, women, NHS, oil, economics, stae-owned firms, the Pacific, GM crops, Equatorial Guinea, getting old

Letters

Essay

A planet of suburbs

Places apart

United States

Veterans

What next?

America’s next defence secretary

Fit for purpose

Seven years since the recession began

How America is faring

Rehabilitating young offenders

Pups and perps

Sex crimes on campus

Professors as judges

Louisiana politics

Landrieu’s end

The Americas

Protests in Mexico

¡Justicia!

Drugs policy in Canada

Local heroin

Asia

Japan and Abenomics

Moment of reckoning

Japan and the war

Abe’s demons

Rural development in South Korea

Pastures new

China

Hong Kong and Taiwan

Losing hearts and minds

Domestic violence

Home truths

Middle East & Africa

Israeli politics

Bibi’s bust-up

Air strikes against IS

Phantoms in deconflict

Law in the Middle East

Judge like an Egyptian

Oman’s succession

After the sultan

Sudan and the UN

Mission in trouble

The emir of Kano

Banker v Boko

Europe

Georgia and Russia

Dreams deferred

Russian gas exports

Pipe down

Moldova’s election

Slouching towards Europe

Sweden’s government

That was quick

French politics

Déjà vu

Dutch race relations

Blacked up

Britain

The autumn statement

‘Tis not the season

New homes

Building blocks

Maggie’s moggy and Tony’s tabby

Of mousers and men

Immigration and Europe

Time for tact

Leaving London

Heading north

City devolution

Viva la Wolvolution

Fuel duty

Easy riders

International

International justice

Nice idea, now make it work

Climate diplomacy

Flexible or toothless?

Bribery

Graft work

Technology Quarterly

Printing electronics

Chips off the old block

Artificial reefs

Watery dwellings

Streaming media

Video in demand

Nanomedicine

Hunting as a pack

Nuclear fusion

A big bet on small

Robot jurisprudence

How to judge a ’bot

On-demand science

Uber for experiments

Innovation awards

And the winners are…

Unmanned aircraft

The robot overhead

Grid-scale storage

Smooth operators

Film projection

The next picture show

Business

Nuclear power in China

Promethean perils

German utilities

E.ON and E.OUT

Online-advertising fraud

Dial “B” for bot

Motorbikes in India

Coming out for a Hero

Mining and corruption

Crying foul in Guinea

Finance & economics

Shale oil

In a bind

Deposit insurance in China

A premium for risk

Buttonwood

Take your pick

Investment banking

Trading places

Corporate debt in India

Power cut

Lithuania and the euro

Strange bedfellows

The status of economists

The power of self-belief

Private equity

Last hurrah

Free exchange

Poor behaviour

Science & technology

Manned space flight

This time it’s different...

Neutrino astronomy

Balloon with a view

Disseminating science

Lighten our darkness

Animal culture

Left or right wing?

Books & arts

Books of the Year

Page turners

Books by Economist writers in 2014

What we wrote…

Economic & financial indicators

Obituary

Obituary: P.D. James

Murder most intricate