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
California's drought is not getting better but experts look to startups for ideas
State officials are trying everything from serving less water in restaurants and doing less laundry at hotels to a $1bn emergency relief plan unveiled on Thursday. But experts warn all of that and much more will still be required to deal with byproducts of the drought
Andy Meek, Guardian, 22 March 2015
State officials are trying everything from serving less water in restaurants and doing less laundry at hotels to a $1bn emergency relief plan unveiled on Thursday. But experts warn all of that and much more will still be required to deal with byproducts of the drought
Andy Meek, Guardian, 22 March 2015
Give us the freedom to build our own homes
We need 260,000 new homes a year, and officials won’t build them.
James Heartfield, spiked, March 2015
We need 260,000 new homes a year, and officials won’t build them.
James Heartfield, spiked, March 2015
The sharing economy: poverty of ambition
A lot of what is called Sharing is not really Sharing, Much of what is claimed to be new about the Sharing Economy is not really new, and the Sharing Economy, however defined, is not a solution to the big economic problems we face.
Rob Killick, UK After the Recession, 20 February 2015
A lot of what is called Sharing is not really Sharing, Much of what is claimed to be new about the Sharing Economy is not really new, and the Sharing Economy, however defined, is not a solution to the big economic problems we face.
Rob Killick, UK After the Recession, 20 February 2015
Fattigdom snart ett minne blott
Det är väl belagt att bistånd tenderar att försämra förutsättningarna för utveckling, att det bidrar till korruption och väpnade konflikter.
Fredrik Segerfeldt, SVT, 3 November 2014
Det är väl belagt att bistånd tenderar att försämra förutsättningarna för utveckling, att det bidrar till korruption och väpnade konflikter.
Fredrik Segerfeldt, SVT, 3 November 2014
Making sense of the UK collaborative economy
The launch of a new report that considers the progress and potential of the UK's collaborative economy
NESTA, September 2014
The launch of a new report that considers the progress and potential of the UK's collaborative economy
NESTA, September 2014
Explaining white privilege to a broke white person
Gina Crosley-Corcoran, Huffington Post, 5 August 2014
Gina Crosley-Corcoran, Huffington Post, 5 August 2014
Why We’re in a New Gilded Age
Thomas Piketty has led a revolution in our understanding of long-term trends in inequality.
Paul Krugman, New York Review of Books, 8 May 2014
Thomas Piketty has led a revolution in our understanding of long-term trends in inequality.
Paul Krugman, New York Review of Books, 8 May 2014
The Trouble with Europe: Why the EU isn't working - How it can be reformed - What could take its place
Roger Bootle, Nicholas Brealey Publishing, May 2014
How Airbnb and Lyft Finally Got Americans to Trust Each Other
The sharing economy has come on so quickly and powerfully that regulators and economists are still grappling to understand its impact. But one consequence is already clear: Many of these companies have us engaging in behaviors that would have seemed unthinkably foolhardy as recently as five years ago.
Jason Tanz, Wired, 23 April 2014
The sharing economy has come on so quickly and powerfully that regulators and economists are still grappling to understand its impact. But one consequence is already clear: Many of these companies have us engaging in behaviors that would have seemed unthinkably foolhardy as recently as five years ago.
Jason Tanz, Wired, 23 April 2014
Are we still a classless society Mr Cameron?
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