The third monthly WikiLeaks Central Competition 2011 asked writers to answer to the question: What are the root causes of the global economic crisis?
The winner is:
This essay was, hands down, one of the finest essays submitted to all three competitions. We encourage everyone to read it.
All the submissions were judged on (i) newsworthiness; (ii) supporting research; and (iii) organization and writing style. (iv) We also considered the submission's capacity to engender online discourse in the form of comments and retweets.