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"Free markets" do not guarantee workers any freedoms other than the freedom to be unemployed and to starve.
Long before the growing interest in economic inequality facing…
Branko Milanovic asks if our life is a CV, what kind of social scientist will we make?
Recently I read, rather by accident than design, short lives of…
Is socialism making a comeback? If so, what exactly is socialism, why did it lose steam toward the latter part of the 20th century, and how do we distinguish democratic socialism…
Brian Stoddart argues that choosing the lesser of two political evils is the new global normal.
It is now a truism to note that politics in the West are either in transition, “…
The sharp rise in suicides and overdoses under Trump exposes the truth about the U.S. economy, Noam Chomsky says.
Donald Trump ran a campaign — and won the 2016 presidential…
Branko Milanovic on the exciting ideological choices facing the world's youth.
When I was young and would overhear (rare) conversations that my father and his friends…
The China boom: Why China will not rule the world by Ho-fung Hung. Published 2015 by Columbia University Press.
I read with pleasure the recent book “The…
As we enter an era of energy transition and the effects of climate change become more dramatic, our need for new forms of economic thinking is becoming increasingly urgent. The…
Branko Milanovic on why the Chinese or Singaporean models of political organisation may prove to appealing to others.
Last night, in a response to something I had written…
To think correctly about globalization one needs to think of it in historical context. This means seeing today’s globalization and its effects, positive and negative, as in many…