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

How Asia bails out America
The Federal Reserve’s ‘shock’ slashing of interest rates was only the latest episode in a drawn-out drama starring Western sluggishness and Eastern dynamism.
Daniel Ben Ami, spiked, 24 January 2008

The midwife of miserabilism
With its attacks on advertising, opulence and environmental filth, John Kenneth Galbraith’s The Affluent Society, published 50 years ago, anticipated today’s small-minded growth scepticism.
Daniel Ben-Ami, spiked, 9 January 2008

The truth about the ‘credit crunch’
What the Subprime Crisis reveals about the economy, politics and the state in 2008 – and why the real story is the rise of the East as the West flounders.
Phil Mullan, spiked, 7 January 2008

Individualists Who Cooperate: Education and Welfare Reform Befitting a Free People

The government is trying to do too much. We need to reframe the constitutional settlement that defines the relationship between the state and the individual in civil society. The state should be confined to the legitimate tasks that are within its competence, thus allowing greater scope for private enterprise and social entrepreneurs to supply public services more effectively.

David Green, Civitas, 2 January 2008

There's no new 'scramble for Africa'
China’s relationship with Africa is no threat to the West - all the major economies are gaining from a continent that is no longer a ‘basket case’.
Stuart Simpson, spiked, 4 December 2007

The Limits of a Smaller, Poorer China
In a little-noticed mid-summer announcement, the Asian Development Bank presented official survey results indicating China's economy is smaller and poorer than established estimates say.
Albert Keidel, Financial Times, 14 November 2007

How fit is the panda?
China's booming economy is helping to support global growth as America turns sickly. So now it has to keep up the pace.
The Economist, 27 September 2007

Meet the consultants who deliver deliverables
Management consultancy is such a broad field it is no surprise that not too many of us know exactly what it is that these people do
Carly Chynoweth, The Times, 27 September 2007

Disenchantment with Market Economics: East Germans and Western Capitalism

The life-worlds and personal experiences of workers and employees in three enterprises in East Berlin at the moment of political and economic upheaval stand at the centre of the book.

Birgit Müller, Berghahn Books, 25 September 2007

Towards an age of abundance
Why we must tackle the critics of economic growth, and finish off the war against scarcity.
Daniel Ben-Ami, spiked, 14 September 2007


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