Comment & Opinion - Columnists Archives

09 March 2020
Parliaments can contribute to more effective and accountable governance through monitoring the implementation, impact and unintended consequences of the laws they pass (otherwise…
27 February 2020
Following on from his previous post, Branko Milanovic further explores the difficulty of comparing wealth over the ages and across societies.    A few days ago I…
20 February 2020
Branko Milanovic explores the difficulty of comparing wealth over the ages and across societies.    It seems obvious. Let me start with the definitions that economists who work on…
17 February 2020
What was Brexit all about? What will its most likely consequences for UK, EU, and the world economy at large? Renowned British economist Malcolm Sawyer, Emeritus Proferssor of…
10 February 2020
Branko Milanovic explores three ways capitalism may be transcended.   After the crisis of 2007-8, capitalism has entered among some parts of the public opinion into an…
03 February 2020
Cornelius Adebahr calls for a more proactive EU. Teheran’s decision to abandon the uranium enrichment limits set in Iran nuclear deal put Europeans in a bind. They couldn’t leave…
07 January 2020
We live in turbulent times. The world is in the midst of a geopolitical transition marked once again by imperial rivalries and the emergence of dangerous peripheral forces, all…
17 December 2019
Richard McGregor’s Asia’s Reckoning: China, Japan and the Fate of US Power in the Pacific Century has, according to the numerous blurbs on the cover and comments on the Amazon,…
04 December 2019
Branko Milanovic reviews Francis Fukuyama’s Political Order and Political Decay.   I have reviewed Francis Fukuyama’s The Origins of Political Order (OPO)…
25 November 2019
Branko Milanovic explores what connects the wave of protests sweeping the world.   “The specter is haunting [the world]. The specter of … [what?]". While Marx and other…