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Branko Milanovic on why labor-managed companies - as seen in China - must ensure they avoid political influence.
The recent bizarre and rather ignorant discussion…
In response to COP26, C. J. Polychroniou argues that we cannot rely on summits to solve climate change. Instead, radical and legal activism are the best hopes for our future.
The…
Branko Milanovic argues that research on the economics of global inequality is a window onto power and politics.
I wrote this in a Twitter discussion about the…
The challenge ahead is to turn every city and every town in virtually every major country in the world into a stronghold of the global climate movement.
With the United Nations…
Scott Montgomery discusses the difficult links between anti-vax positions and ongoing democratic backslides in the USA and elsewhere.
As of this writing, covid-19 defines…
Branko Milanovic highlights similarities between the domestic politics of two global rivals.
While the United States and China are at loggerheads on many issues from …
Twenty years ago this week, the terrorist organization al-Qaeda, whose origins date back to 1979 when Soviet troops invaded Afghanistan, hijacked four airplanes and carried out…
Branko Milanovic explores a new book that unpicks ways to address globalizations' downsides.
In an excellent just-published book “Six faces of globalization” …
Three ‘events’ in the coming weeks stand to have a significant impact on the timing of peak oil, with profound implications for Saudi Arabia in particular.
“Gradually and then…
Scott Montgomery unpicks the discourses surrounding the U.S.' uncomfortable withdrawal from Afghanistan.
There is an ugly quality of thrill in the surge of media coverage on…