Prospect Magazine Mar 2020 Retour à l'édition précédente

In Prospect’s March issue: Prospect’s editor Tom Clark and commissioning editor Alex Dean explore how Britain’s courts have becoming increasingly involved in politics. Now, with Boris Johnson planning to bring them down a peg or two, we ask whether the judiciary has overplayed its hand.

Elsewhere in the issue: Economists Anne Case and Angus Deaton argue that the primary measure of economic inequality, the Gini coefficient, is preventing us from have a proper discussion about its causes. Philip Oltermann profiles German Chancellor Angela Merkel as she prepares to step aside after 15 years in power. Also, Andrew Dickson asks if architecture can solve the climate crisis and Philip Ball discovers if AI could replicate the human brain