PER 2015
Saving our skin / Hamish Lloyd Barnes
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Should we harness the possibility of direct democracy? / Howard Hung
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Is carbon trading dead? / Oliver Morland 12 ‘It is immoral for drug companies to charge large sums for drugs that are cheap to manufacture.’ Discuss. Maurice Khoo 16 Aman Nath 22 Owen Chu 24 “Reason is and ought only to be the slave of the passions.” Can a desire ever be wrong? How would you attempt to prove this? / Oz Aibangbee 29 What is the most underrated event of the past, and why is it so much more significant than people understand? / Harry Warren 35 Do You Agree That Unrestricted Individual Freedom Serves The Interests Of All? Charlie Dee 37 Oliver Laurie 40 Jan Rybojad 43 Why are oil prices falling in 2015? / Minsuk Kim 47 Is the falling oil price reshaping the world economy? / Sunny Chen 49 Does Formula 1 need a change of oil? / Leo O’Mahony 54 Econcomics: the economics of the comic industry / Oscar Smith 59 Should “fracking” be allowed? If so, who should benefit? Charlie Clarke 62 Paddy Wilson 66 How has resistance of oppression shaped historical cultures and societies? / Thomas Parfitt 70 “Countries like Greece caused the Eurozone crisis by running up too much debt, so it is only fair that they should bear most of the burden of fixing it.” Discuss. / Josh Oakley 74 Should raising GDP be the primary objective of economic policy? / Adam Burton 78 How far has Spain dealt with the economic problems it faced after the 2008 recession? Cameron Gleave 82
Should the government support British manufacturing? / Ed Tillson
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Front cover: Thomas Boutelle
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