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.

Choose a theme from the listing on the left to narrow your search, or view all readings.

Economics

Who's afraid of economic growth?
Behind today's trendy arguments about environmentalism, ethical living and happiness, there lurks a deep disdain for material progress.
Daniel Ben-Ami, spiked, 4 May 2006

Happiness and its discontents
The BBC's The Happiness Formula fails to interrogate whether happiness is an appropriate social goal.
Daniel Ben-Ami, spiked, 4 May 2006

China: Friend or Foe?
China is the world’s next superpower. Should the West celebrate – or be afraid? Is China a friend to be welcomed or a foe to be guarded against?

Hugo de Burgh, Icon Books Ltd, 4 May 2006

Nobody has to be vile
The two faces of Bill Gates are exactly like the two faces of Soros: on the one hand, a cruel businessman, destroying or buying out competitors, aiming at a virtual monopoly; on the other, the great philanthropist who makes a point of saying: ‘What does it serve to have computers if people do not have enough to eat?’
Slavoj Žižek, London Review of Books, 6 April 2006

Toxic China?
Western critics cite China's environmental record as an excuse for attacking economic growth.
Kirk Leech, spiked, 7 March 2006

China: threat or opportunity?
The rise of China could be good for the West, if only it would rise to the challenge.
Sheila Lewis, spiked, 13 October 2005

China has further to grow
China's growth then has been far from spectacular by the standards of its smaller Asian neighbours.
Martin Wolf, Financial Times, 12 May 2005

Why Globalization Works
Wolf explains how globalization works, critiques the charges against it, argues that the biggest obstacle to global economic progress has been the failure not of the market but of governments, and offers a realistic scenario for economic internationalism in the post-9/11 age.

Martin Wolf, Yale University Press, 4 February 2005

Development should mean more than survival
'Sustainable development' leaves the poor vulnerable to natural disasters.
Daniel Ben-Ami, spiked, 17 January 2005

China and the Global Economic Recovery
Keynote Address at the American Enterprise Institute Seminar.
Anne O. Krueger, International Monetary Fund, 10 January 2005


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