2023-12-04
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It's Monday, December the 4th, 2023.
I'm Andrew Palmer, host of Bost Class, our seven-part special series on management.
This is Editor's Picks,
where we'll bring you four highlights from the current edition of The Economist,
read aloud, exclusively for subscribers.
We have two cover stories around the world this week.
Our cover in Europe takes a deep look at Russia.
Vladimir Putin's war in Ukraine has no end in sight.
We ask, is Mr Putin winning?
His victory would be a tragedy for Ukraine,
a strategic loss for the West, and even for Russia itself.
Elsewhere, our cover story looks at how in rich countries,
wage gaps are shrinking, and evidence points towards inequality continuing to fall.
In the second article, we'll bring you on this podcast.
we predict that the blue-collar bonanza is here to stay.
That overturns the conventional wisdom on capitalism.