Battle of Ideas | Reading for Battle

Three cheers for China’s economic miracle
Development in China has lifted tens of millions of people out of poverty, and in the past decade alone Shanghai has built more skyscrapers than already exist in New York. Listen carefully: this is a good thing.
Austin Williams, spiked, 2 May 2008

Stabilizing an Unstable Economy

“Twenty-five years ago, when most economists were extolling the virtues of financial deregulation and innovation, a maverick named Hyman P. Minsky maintained a more negative view of Wall Street; in fact, he noted that bankers, traders, and other financiers periodically played the role of arsonists, setting the entire economy ablaze.”

Hyman P. Minsky, McGraw-Hill Professional, 1 May 2008

Bad Samaritans: The Guilty Secrets of Rich Nations and the Threat to Global Prosperity

Rich and powerful governments and institutions are actually being 'Bad Samaritans': their intentions are worthy but their simplistic free-market ideology and poor understanding of history leads them to inflict policy errors on others.

Ha-Joon Chang, Random House Business Books, 1 May 2008

Stabilizing an Unstable Economy

Mr. Minsky explains why the American economy has experienced periods of debilitating inflation, rising unemployment, and marked slowdowns-and why the economy is now undergoing a credit crisis that he foresaw.

Hyman Minsky, McGraw-Hill Professional, 1 May 2008

Punjab reaps a poisoned harvest
As food prices rise, there are even problems in the Indian region of Punjab, where science once seemed to have found answers for a hungry world.
David Loyn, BBC News, 26 April 2008

Rivals: How the Power Struggle Between China, India and Japan Will Shape Our Next Decade

"Rivals" looks at: How the power struggle between China, India and Japan will shape our next decade, will explore the legacies of history, the likely future trajectories of China, Japan and India, and the potential collisions and intersections between them which will shape the 21st century.

Bill Emmott, Allen Lane, 3 April 2008

The economics of violence: Growth with inequality
The World Bank claims that poverty in Asia has been halved between 1990 and 2003. But the story looks good only until you see the underbelly of this economic growth – growing inequality, violence and pollution.
John Samuel, infochange, April 2008

The Baton Passes to Asia
It’s the end of the era of the white man.
Roger Cohen, New York Times, 31 March 2008

The end of capitalism as we know it?
The Western world is in an economic crisis similar in scale to the oil shock of 1973. What we are seeing is nothing less than the unravelling of neo-liberalism – the dominant economic and ideological model of the last 30 years.
Phillip Blond, Independent, 23 March 2008

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