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This is the question that I am often asked and will be asked in two days. So I decided to write my answers down.
The argument why inequality should not matter is…
Branko Milanovic explores 'globalist' authors.
When you read VS Naipaul for the first time, it is like when you have tasted ice for the first time (to use another of…
The US midterm elections of November 6, 2018, produced a divided Congress and essentially reaffirmed the existence of two nations in one country. But they also revealed, once…
Branko Milanovic on the delusions at the heart of Adam Smith's writings.
It is this deception which rouses and keeps in continual motion the industry of mankind. It is…
Climate change is the greatest existential crisis facing humanity today. Capitalist industrialization has led us to the edge of the precipice, and avoiding the end of civilization…
Branko Milanovic provides an update on global inequality trends.
With domestic inequalities and “populism” taking center stage, the changes in global income inequality have…
Scott Montgomery on why nuclear fusion deserves our attention.
In the 1970s, when I was a graduate student in geosciences, the long-term future of energy had a single name:…
Branko Milanovic recalls Poland's remarkable integration into the world system.
When several days ago I ran into a Polish bar tender(ness) in a restaurant in New York and…
Part 2 of this essay continues the topic of a post-carbon future but from an unconventional perspective. It delves into questions about how we conceive of “clean” energy and how…
It's been more than two years since citizens in U.K. voted 48 to 52 for a split from European Union. Yet, the conservative government of Theresa May is still trying to come up…