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Branko Milanovic on the former Yugoslavia's private sector Christmases.
A week ago, a friend asked me how was Christmas when I was growing up in Yugoslavia, in the 1960s. I…
Localization offers the means to return to a real and stable economy not based on speculation, exploitation and debt.
Is there a viable alternative to the economic, social,…
Scott Montgomery offers a questioning homage to the evolutionist E.O. Wilson who died on December 27th 2021.
On a glowing October day in 1976, I attended a talk by…
C. J. Polychroniou argues that the global spread of authoritarian populism and undermining of democracy is intimately connected to neoliberalism.
For stark evidence that…
Branko Milanovic explores the incentives behind rich countries' reluctance to share vaccines and what can be done about them.
Until a friend asked me yesterday, I have not given…
Branko Milanovic argues that the summit is a thinly veiled and dangerous attempt to mask geopolitical aims and divide the world into two opposed camps.
More than 100 nations…
Scott Montgomery on why abandoning coal is akin to replacing the circulatory system of a living body.
There’s no debate. Global coal use continues to be a major hurdle…
Cornelius Adebahr argues that Merkel's foreign policy inertia is symptomatic of a wider Western malaise.
In hindsight, it is ironic – and symbolic – that the…
Jennifer Morgan, executive director of Greenpeace International, attended COP26 and witnessed personally the power of protests in the streets, which, she says, was the real…
Many societies are facing monumental and potentially irreversible shifts in how people live, work, and think. There is an increasing need for socio-economic…