Branko Milanovic

@BrankoMilan

1) Income inequality; 2) Politics; 3) History; 4) Soccer. Author of "Global inequality" and "Capitalism, Alone" (2019). Stone Center, CUNY; LSE, London (I|me)

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  1. 47 minutes ago

    Good points by . Once this tragedy is over and there is a new govt in Russia, great powers (perhaps G20) should create a new and better set of institutions and rules improving upon the way it was done in 1945.

    The terrifying world we face today -- a world where "countries are...like tigers eyeing their prey, keen to find every opportunity among the ruins of the old order", to quote a Chinese professor -- is the world we unleashed in 2003.
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  2. 56 minutes ago

    "When you look at the map of Eurasia — de facto one continent — you might end up with a situation like that of the 1400s and 1500s, with fairly rich parts on both the Atlantic and Pacific end, while the hinterland is relatively poor."

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  3. 1 hour ago

    "Even if the war were to stop tomorrow, the willingness to remove sanctions would be very low and imply such a list of concessions that any Russian government that came after Putin’s would find it politically difficult to accept. It would require another Brest-Litovsk."

    Fascinating discussion with on the fallout of Russia's war for its economy + place in the global order. Interview by and
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  4. 2 hours ago

    Interesting.

    Lviv is bustling with activity these days: IDPs, volunteers, people on the way to Poland, and, of course, locals fill the streets every day. A lot of car traffic too (no fuel deficit here). I wonder if Lviv population swelled to 1 million already.
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    7 hours ago

    Join us this Wednesday (March 23) for our next department seminar with (UMass Amherst). Isabella is presenting on her recent book How China Escaped Shock Therapy: The Market Reform Debate. (Additional details below.)

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  6. 5 hours ago

    "What is important to understand here is that those politically connected oligarchs not only made themselves rich, but made themselves rich by destroying the means of livelihood for thousands."

    We spoke with economist about Russia’s place in the globalized capitalist order, the domestic fallout of the war in Ukraine, and the effects the invasion may have on its relations with China.
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    Fascinating discussion with on the fallout of Russia's war for its economy + place in the global order. Interview by and

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  8. 5 hours ago

    My today's interview for Jacobin: On transition, sanctions, "essentialism", "wage goods", neoliberalism...

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    Mar 19

    Out today in the Journal of Economic Inequality, "Missing Top Income Recipients." I critically review the various methods that have been used to deal with selective compliance in surveys, and offer some recommendations for practice.

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  10. 14 hours ago

    during the national emergency, of a job posting offered in Manchukuo, of Herr Hitler’s desire to prevent the outbreak of war in Europe (through a letter of a German family), and then of the beginning of a distant European war. That’s where the book stops."

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  11. 14 hours ago

    "And the war? It appears from time to time, as it would appear to a family that really does not care about social and political events: as a distant thunder. We learn of the “Chinese incident”, the need to dress more modestly

    A beautiful elegy for the simple time of peace written and (mostly) published during the war. "Marriage and society in the ante-bellum Japan"
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  12. 14 hours ago

    Marriage and society in the ante-bellum Japan

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  13. 14 hours ago

    A beautiful elegy for the simple time of peace written and (mostly) published during the war. "Marriage and society in the ante-bellum Japan"

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    19 hours ago

    Shanghai Disney Resort said late Sunday that it will be temporarily closed from Monday amid the COVID-19 resurgence

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  15. 19 hours ago

    Russia's LT economic prospects.

    In a nice piece on Russia's long-term economic prospects, forgets one major obstacle: structural change from corrupt kleptokracy to market-type of an economy is not an easy task.
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    UN says 10 million Ukrainians have fled their homes since Russian military invasion began

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  17. 20 hours ago

    Friends.

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    Mar 14

    This is stray cat in Odessa, Ukraine by the seashore. Behind him are fortifications against a Russian amphibious assault. (Reddit)

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  19. Mar 19

    Very good interview with Marina Ovsyannikova, the woman who showed a poster against the war on prime time TV. (Did anything like that happen in other wars?)

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  20. Mar 19

    "It is an empirical and often detailed review of 47 large banquets given by Stalin between 1935 and 1949 at the Kremlin (no banquets were given during the War)."

    Dining with Stalin
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