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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…
The Great Regression Edited by Heinrich Geiselberger. Wiley. 2017.
In a slender volume edited by Heinrich Geisenberger “The Great Regression”, fifteen, among the most important…
This is the first of a two-part column on the subject of a non-carbon energy future, a subject that is much discussed in energy circles and will continue to be. Part 1 outlines…
On China by Henery Kissinger. Penguin Books, 2012
Henry Kissinger’s “On China” (Penguin Books, 2012) is a magisterial book. Although it deals almost entirely with China, it…
Cornelius Adebahr explores the prospects of a 'Persian spring' and what role outsiders may play.
When people in Iran took to the streets earlier this year, some commentators were…