A politician who did not want to rule
An assessment of Mikhail Gorbachev (1931-2022)
branko2f7.substack.com/p/a-politician…

💡 Thanks to all participants who joined our event 'Why Wealth Inequality Matters' yesterday, to hear III researchers present cutting-edge research demonstrating systemic problems that wealth inequality is generating in the UK.
Read the research report 👉ow.ly/wq1350RFv9F

⏳Just one week left until our #EqualityDebate featuring Branko Milanovic, Marie Andreescu, Ulysse Lojkine, & Thomas Piketty discussing #VisionsofInequality !

👉Register now inequalitylab.world/en/event/visio…

🗓️Tue 21 May, 17:30-19:00
📍PSE, Paris 14e Paris School of Economics

'Nato to shoot down Russian missiles, says its ex-chief'
This is a great idea. Instead of dragging this end of this civilization for such a long time, let's do it quickly. Two, three days and it is all over. Forever. Perhaps we should have ended it in 1962.

Three steps to freedom
Secessionism and the collapse of Communist federations
Review of V Zubok's 'Collapse'
branko2f7.substack.com/p/three-steps-…

Muy feliz de haber presentado “Por una cancha pareja” en mi alma mater The Graduate Center y en la comunidad de estudiosos de la desigualdad en la que me formé Stone Center on Socio-Economic Inequality #NewProfilePic

Universities as factories - Branko Milanovic unpicks the motives of those cracking down on campus protests. globalpolicyjournal.com/blog/13/05/202…

My new paper 'How Rich Were the Rich? An Empirically-Based Taxonomy of Pre-Industrial Bases of Wealth'
Full text available
stonecenter.gc.cuny.edu/files/2024/05/…

Even I, as a fan of the longue durée, reckon this is pushing it

At the Stone Center on Socio-Economic Inequality center, we could not be more pleased and proud. Tina Law & Manuel Schechtl are departing their postdocs to take up tenure-track faculty jobs at two of the best public universities in the country: UC Davis & @unc. The downside: we will miss having them in NYC.🍎

We are thrilled to welcome Branko Milanovic for the launch of his fascinating new book 'Visions of Inequality'.

Milanovic presents the story of how inequality has been thought about over a history spanning the last two centuries.

📅 Thurs 30 May

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ow.ly/9w0e50REbyC

This seems to be a night where we turn the corner and there is no way back. Reports are horrifying all across Gaza. Buildings tremble 20 km away in Israel. Hundreds will be killed before morning

The closer to the red line, the more the country has pushed its inequality to an unsustainable level. If Gini is above the line, some portion of the population cannot survive. The red line is called Inequality Possibility Frontier (defined in a 2011 paper by Lindert, Williamson &…

“As your Ambassador can see for himself, we possess all things. I set no value on objects strange or ingenious, and have no use for your country’s manufactures.'

These are the sources of the social tables used in the paper. 'How rich were the rich?'
stonecenter.gc.cuny.edu/files/2024/05/…

Veoma zanimljiva, i po mom misljenju tacna, analiza.
Zašto je Kina za Srbiju i Vučića privlačan partner?
balkans.aljazeera.net/opinions/2024/…

When one looks at these five cases: unfree labor.

What were the countries/units that pushed inequality to an extreme level (according to the social tables)? Aztec Empire 1500
Colonial Kenya 1927 & 1914.
Nueva Espana 1790
Moscow region 1811
Mesopotamia 900