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Global Inequality and More 3.0

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Poison for the soul Review of David Lay Williams’s “The Greatest of All Plagues”
14 hours ago
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Trump, the state and the revolution To say that Trump in his new incarnation is different from the Trump No.
a week ago
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Gold, volk and IQs Hayek’s fatal conceit
2 weeks ago
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How the mainstream abandoned universal economic principles (but forgot to mention it)
a month ago
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“To the Finland Station” Trump as a tool of history
a month ago
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To be young, perchance to dream A review of Miloš Vojinović's “The political ideas of the Young Bosnia”
a month ago
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Devant la guerre On E. H. Carr's "The twenty years' crisis 1919-39"
2 months ago
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Trump and the Rise of Asia My interview with "Atlantico"
2 months ago
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Would Lenin have approved of the IMF? An indispensable organization
3 months ago
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The ideology of Donald J. Trump Does Donald J.
3 months ago
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Changes in income distributions in China, India and the United States, 2018-23 The effects of covid and the return to “normalcy”
4 months ago
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Russia’s apocalyptic messianism Questions raised by Nikolai Berdyaev
4 months ago
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Cultural revolution in the land of Kafka and Borges On Peter Kropotkin's Memoirs
4 months ago
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Freedom by North-West The obscurantist nature of East European nationalisms
5 months ago
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The third framing Can an international economic system exist in the world of nationalisms?
5 months ago
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The end of the great order under the Heaven A review of Gary Gerstle’s “The Rise and Fall of the Neoliberal Order”
6 months ago
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Living through another great transformation… A review of Karl Polanyi's "Great transformation"
6 months ago
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The end and the beginning of history Three ways of thinking about Lea Ypi’s Free
7 months ago
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2x2 geopolitics Wars and ideology simplified
7 months ago
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Marx Truncated A review of Shlomo Avineri’s “Karl Marx”
8 months ago
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The life of Maynard K. A review of Zach Carter’s “The Price of Peace”
8 months ago
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Universities as factories I have seen, and read about, of many instances when the police would clear universities of students...
9 months ago
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9 months ago
I have seen, and read about, of many instances when the police would clear universities of students who were demonstrating. The police would come in on the orders of the authorities unhappy with student-created oases of freedom. It would come, armed, beat up students, and end the...
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The world according to Garegnani I have not thought of this until I had lunch with Anwar Shaikh today. I have personally known Anwar...
10 months ago
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10 months ago
I have not thought of this until I had lunch with Anwar Shaikh today. I have personally known Anwar for at least ten years. But only today it struck me that I was meeting a hero of my early intellectual life, although the difference in age between Anwar and me is not that great....
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Abundance, capitalism and climate change In classical Marxism, communism is defined as a society of material abundance. It is a society where...
10 months ago
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10 months ago
In classical Marxism, communism is defined as a society of material abundance. It is a society where goods flow in abundance (“after the productive forces have…increased…all the springs of co-operative wealth flow more abundantly”, Marx, Critique of the Gotha Program
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Why not Keynes? Keynes’ uneasy relationship with income distribution
10 months ago
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The order of inequality Review of Tongdong Bai’s “Against political equality: The Confucian case"
10 months ago
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Should poor countries remain poor? Stock vs flow approach.
10 months ago
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Before the police arrives: Bookstores on Saturdays I always loved Saturdays. When I was a college student, quite improbably, my parents decided that I...
a year ago
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a year ago
I always loved Saturdays. When I was a college student, quite improbably, my parents decided that I would be a “technical executor” of our family’s monthly budget. My family was part of the red bourgeoisie and we had enough, and probably more than enough, for a comfortable life;...
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Freedom to be “wrong”: the only real advantage of democracy Why the liberal project will fail
a year ago
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Three steps to freedom Secessionism and the collapse of Communist federations
a year ago
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James Burnham’s managerialism eighty years later Like everybody who has studied Marxism from a relatively young age I encountered many quotes of, or...
a year ago
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a year ago
Like everybody who has studied Marxism from a relatively young age I encountered many quotes of, or comments on, James Burnham's “The Managerial Revolution”. I was quite familiar with Burnham’s ideas but I have not read the book. I don't think that I would have read it, now in...
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To all the newspapers I loved The decline and fall of the print media.
a year ago
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Sodom and Gomorrah Le hasard is a capricious master. When I recently travelled to China, I knew that I would read there...
a year ago
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a year ago
Le hasard is a capricious master. When I recently travelled to China, I knew that I would read there books printed in China and about China. So I took none of them with me. The only book that I took there was a book that has nothing to do with China: Proust’s
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The politics of physiocracy Quesnay and China
a year ago
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Powerful, but within the orbit of the empire A review of Clinton Fernandes’ “Subimperial power“
a year ago
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The abolition of paper and the pompous rule of the present China is considered to have been the first country (civilization) to have created the modern version...
a year ago
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a year ago
China is considered to have been the first country (civilization) to have created the modern version of paper. Paper is listed as one among the four big Chinese inventions (the other three are compass, gun powder and printing). Perhaps it will be the first country to desinvent...
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The three German fears Historical origins of the malaise
a year ago
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There is no exit for dictators In an interesting paper he tweeted yesterday, Kaushik Basu discusses, using a mathematical model, an...
a year ago
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a year ago
In an interesting paper he tweeted yesterday, Kaushik Basu discusses, using a mathematical model, an old problem: how rulers once they are in power cannot leave it even if they wish to do so, because their road to power, and in power, is littered with corpses that will all...
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Is “neo-imperialism” the only path to development? On Bill Warren's "Imperialism: Pioneer of Capitalism"
a year ago
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On general futility of political discussions with people Over the years I have had political and ideological discussions with at least three groups of people...
a year ago
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a year ago
Over the years I have had political and ideological discussions with at least three groups of people and have concluded that these discussions are, almost entirely, futile in making people either see things differently, or acknowledge that others may see things differently, or...
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Why is the Serbia-Kosovo situation globally serious? I learned about the newest dispute between Serbia and Kosovo in a New York café when I overheard a...
a year ago
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a year ago
I learned about the newest dispute between Serbia and Kosovo in a New York café when I overheard a very animated conversation between a lady who seemed to blame Serbia for World War I (and perhaps World War III?) and the well-dressed maitre d’ who was so excited that he kept on...