battle of ideas

The Euro and the Battle of Ideas

by Markus K. Brunnermeier, Harold James and Jean-Pierre Landau  · 3 Aug 2016  · 586pp  · 160,321 words

The Euro and the Battle of Ideas Copyright © 2016 by Princeton University Press Published by Princeton University Press, 41 William Street, Princeton, New Jersey 08540 In the United Kingdom: Princeton University Press,

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Library of Congress Cataloging-in-Publication Data Names: Brunnermeier, Markus Konrad, author. | James, Harold, 1956- author. | Landau, Jean-Pierre, author. Title: The euro and the battle of ideas / Markus K. Brunnermeier, Harold James, and Jean-Pierre Landau. Description: Princeton : Princeton University Press, [2016] | Includes bibliographical references and index. Identifiers: LCCN 2016010112 | ISBN 9780691172927

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would be unpopular with small countries with large financial sectors, but also politically impossible for the United Kingdom. PART IV OTHERS’ PERSPECTIVES 12 Italy The battle of ideas in Europe occurs between countries, but it also takes place within countries. Italy—which in many other respects replicates on a national level the problems

Strategy: A History

by Lawrence Freedman  · 31 Oct 2013  · 1,073pp  · 314,528 words

and peculiarly “eastern” conditions, quite different from the complex civil societies and structures of Western states, where the only course was first to fight the battle of ideas. “The war of position in politics,” he insisted, “is the concept of hegemony.” This was, according to one authority, “a capsule description of his entire

The Price of Inequality: How Today's Divided Society Endangers Our Future

by Joseph E. Stiglitz  · 10 Jun 2012  · 580pp  · 168,476 words

today suffice. Backing up these ideas are armies of “experts” willing to provide testimony, arguments, and stories to show the rightness of these views. This battle of ideas occurs, of course, in many playing fields. The politicians have their surrogates, their minions who are not running for office but who advance variants of

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these ideas, and challenge those of rivals. Evidence and argumentation on both sides are assembled. This “battle of ideas” has two objectives (like advertising more generally)—to mobilize those who are already true believers and to persuade those who have not yet made up

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reinforced by “reason.”33 THE WEAPONS OF WAR There is a real battlefield of ideas. But it does not, for the most part, involve a battle of ideas as academics would understand it, where evidence and theory on both sides are carefully weighed. It is a battlefield of “persuasions,” of “framing,” of attempts

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to get to the truth of the matter but to understand better how ordinary citizens’ perceptions are formed and to influence those perceptions. In this battle of ideas, certain weapons play a central role. In the last chapter, we discussed one of these weapons—the media. It should be obvious that imbalances in

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it failed miserably in improving the plight of the ordinary American or even spurring growth in the American economy as a whole. SUCCESSES IN THE BATTLE OF IDEAS I have described the war of ideas—including those ideas that are central to the policies that determine societal inequality—and while the wealthy (and

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seal of approval, having supposedly tightened their standards, another major European bank (Dexia) failed.38 MONETARY POLICY AND THE BATTLE OF IDEAS A central theme of this book is that there has been a battle of ideas—over what kinds of society, what kinds of policies, are best for most citizens—and that this battle has

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, 362–63 privatization in, 176, 316, 364 United Nations Development Program (UNDP), 22 United States: alternative futures of, 289 average tax rate in, 72–73 battle of ideas in, 154–55, 157–59, 162–86 changing social patterns in, 14–15 class distinctions in, xvi–xvii, 20, 180, 292 consumption in, 13, 54

Likewar: The Weaponization of Social Media

by Peter Warren Singer and Emerson T. Brooking  · 15 Mar 2018

administrations, eventually being appointed the first-ever U.S. special representative to Muslim communities. In this position, established to engage in the post-9/11 “battle of ideas,” Pandith traveled to eighty countries and met with thousands of young, disaffected Muslims in places ranging from the slums of Düsseldorf to the mosques of

Stolen: How to Save the World From Financialisation

by Grace Blakeley  · 9 Sep 2019  · 263pp  · 80,594 words

we want to live in. Politics is no longer a question of making technocratic tweaks to a stable system; it is once again a great battle of ideas and the movements that champion them. But with the death of capitalist realism, the greatest challenge faced by contemporary capitalist societies is no longer imagining

America in the World: A History of U.S. Diplomacy and Foreign Policy

by Robert B. Zoellick  · 3 Aug 2020

“old stuff” to “naïve.” Lou Cannon, the national reporter who knew Reagan best, was the lonely voice who recognized that Reagan “was committed to a battle of ideas, not weapons.” Yet Cannon also thought that “Reagan seemed to be debating with himself,” an intriguing insight that would play out in the years ahead

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“[w]e have no choice. We are… at the end of our tether.”85 Reagan’s Diplomacy: The Battle of Ideas from a Position of Strength President Reagan waged the Cold War as a battle of ideas. His empathy for Gorbachev and the Russians never diverted him from pursuing his ideological vision to victory. John Gaddis

How to Be a Liberal: The Story of Liberalism and the Fight for Its Life

by Ian Dunt  · 15 Oct 2020

despised the ‘blind rage’ with which different schools of philosophical thought went into battle with one another. Opposition was only the opening stage of the battle of ideas. It was also about synthesis. Intellectual progress came from finding that which was true or meaningful in your opponent’s argument and incorporating it into

Dark Money: The Hidden History of the Billionaires Behind the Rise of the Radical Right

by Jane Mayer  · 19 Jan 2016  · 558pp  · 168,179 words

a radical goal. In 1978, he declared, “Our movement must destroy the prevalent statist paradigm.” To this end, the Kochs waged a long and remarkable battle of ideas. They subsidized networks of seemingly unconnected think tanks and academic programs and spawned advocacy groups to make their arguments in the national political debate. They

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his community and country. It can do powerful good.” He notes, “I’ve felt good about being able to put dollars to work in the battle of ideas.” Scaife recalled his childhood as happy. He liked the governess who raised him, admired his father, and adored his mother. But his sister, Cordelia, who

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public relations campaign. The best way to do this, Hayek told Fisher, who took notes, was to start “a scholarly institute” that would wage a “battle of ideas.” If Fisher succeeded, Hayek told him, he would change the course of history. To succeed, however, required some deception about the think tank’s true

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with accolades from the Right. National Review described him as “the chief operating officer of the conservative movement.” It added, “Wherever you looked in the battle of ideas, a light dusting would have turned up his fingerprints.” The tribute concluded, “Over the period of his Bradley service, it’s difficult to recall a

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Great Recession had wiped out some $9 trillion in household wealth. But after forty years, the conservative nonprofit ecosystem had grown quite adept at waging battles of ideas. The think tanks, advocacy groups, and talking heads on the right sprang into action, shaping a political narrative that staved off the kind of course

The Internationalists: How a Radical Plan to Outlaw War Remade the World

by Oona A. Hathaway and Scott J. Shapiro  · 11 Sep 2017  · 850pp  · 224,533 words

“admission,” according to Qutb, is a lie. The Crusades were never about power or territorial control. The war with the West has always been a battle of ideas—between those who recognize that only God possesses sovereignty and those who impute it to man. Qutb’s crusade is not a nationalist one. Seeing

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extremist thought. He wrote his most influential work, Milestones, while imprisoned. In it, he argued that the war with the West has always been a battle of ideas between those who recognize that only God possesses sovereignty and those who impute it to man. 20 Abu Bakr al-Baghdadi, the self-declared caliph

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-, 403–4 Bansho Shirabesho (Institute for the Investigation of Barbarian Books), 142 Basdevant, Jules, 267 Basic Law (Germany), 214 Bastille, Storming of the (1789), 83 “battle of ideas,” xxi, 110, 142, 288, 293, 342, 408–11, 414, 423 “Battle of Production,” 371 Baudius, Dominicus, 7 Beck, William, 129 Beelzebub, 65 Beer Hall Putsch

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, 357, 360, 361, 378, 398, 399, 408, 416, 418, 419 alternatives to, xvi, 37n, 96–97, 140, 394–95 “assistance short of,” 82–92, 246 “battle of ideas” in, xxi, 110, 142, 288, 293, 342, 408–11, 414, 423 casus belli (cause of war), 10, 54, 88, 96, 251, 449n casus foederis (duty

Whiteshift: Populism, Immigration and the Future of White Majorities

by Eric Kaufmann  · 24 Oct 2018  · 691pp  · 203,236 words

this in mind, I pay close attention to the scope of the anti-racist taboo across different societies. Evolutionary psychology is not irrelevant, but the battle of ideas and political forces is what’s decisive. Flee or Join? Right-wing populism dominates the news, but white majorities are also responding to ethnic change

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integration policy in member states. Indeed, the EU’s popularity rose after the Brexit vote, revealing its resilience in the face of repeated challenges. THE BATTLE OF IDEAS Europe’s encounter with Islamist terrorism and large-scale immigration has also roiled the world of ideas though it is difficult to know how far

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Spanish Inquisition, or challengers such as radical Islamists, with their heterodox ideas, understand what evolutionary psychologists have shown – that rational arguments alone rarely win the battle of ideas.5 Therefore both use moralistic politics – which triggers our unconscious disgust mechanism – to gain the upper hand. Established groups accuse those with new ideas of

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