Reading for Battle

Battle Readings is a regularly updated compilation of articles, essays, and opinion pieces relevant to the themes of the Battle of Ideas.

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Economics

The Fight for Democracy - The Libertas Voice in Europe
Declan Galey explains how Libertas wants to turn the European Union into a democratic institution that ordinary Europeans can believe in.

Bruce Arnold, Killynon House Books, 1 May 2012

The New Few: Or a Very British Oligarchy
This was supposed to be the era when democracy came into its own, but instead power and wealth in Britain have slowly been consolidated the hands of a small elite, while the rest of the country struggles financially and switches off politically.

Ferdinand Mount, Simon & Schuster, 26 April 2012

When China Rules the World
China will replace the United States as the world's dominant power. In so doing, it will not become more western but the world will become more Chinese.

Martin Jacques, Penguin, 29 March 2012

Ferraris for All: In Defence of Economic Progress
The growth of the economy and the spread of prosperity are increasingly seen as problematic rather than positive - a trend Daniel Ben-Ami has termed 'growth scepticism'. Prosperity is accused of encouraging greed, damaging the environment, causing unhappiness and widening social inequalities. Ferraris for all is a rejoinder to the growth sceptics.

Daniel Ben-Ami, Policy Press, 14 March 2012

The debt crisis is only the canary in the mine
Demonising debt distracts us from what caused the public-debt crisis in the first place – the sluggishness of the productive economy.
Phil Mullan, spiked, 13 March 2012

Greek sovereign debt crisis and Ecuador
The Greek drama has shown that every solution that is based in the compromise and the negotiations with the creditors and the international financial organisations leads to unemployment, poverty, neocolonial loan agreements, police brutality, constitutional coup d’etats and finally at default.
Leonidas Vatikiotis, contramee, 15 February 2012

The Eurocratic assault on democracy
In the eyes of the EU elite, the greatest impediment to ‘the European project’ is the continued existence of the pesky electorate.
Bruno Waterfield, spiked, 8 February 2012

The Economy of China
The emergence of China since 1979 has been a hallmark in the global economy, not only in the past but also in this century. This comprehensive book provides an analytical view of the remarkable economic development of the most exciting economy in the world.

Linda Yueh, Edward Elgar Publishing, 31 January 2012

Football can’t be reduced to number-crunching
Duleep Allirajah, spiked, December 2011

Corporate Social Responsibility – more harm than good
The purpose of CSR today is to act on behalf of governments that can’t be trusted and for people who don’t know what’s good for them.
Bill Durodie, Independent, 31 October 2011


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