Archive - Global Inequality and More 3.0

International development: From moralizing to calculations to laissez-faire to rhetoric

A review of Christian Christiansen’s “Designing Global Economic Equality”

Jun 11 • Branko Milanovic

A different game

On football’s extreme commercialization

Jun 1 • Branko Milanovic

May 2026

Artificial intelligence and future of capitalism from a Marxist, and a neoclassical, point of view

What would be the likely effects of massive introduction of artificial intelligence in the economy, from the Marxist point of view?

May 15 • Branko Milanovic

99 percent Utopia and money

For full happiness is possible only in stagnation.

May 6 • Branko Milanovic

April 2026

How the “virtues” of neoliberal globalization paved the way to its demise

Cosmopolitanism and competition find their nemesis

Apr 28 • Branko Milanovic

Asia’s Rise and the Self-Undermining Logic of Neoliberalism

My conversation with Alice Liu from the Carter Center

Apr 11 • Branko Milanovic

How severe is China’s growth slowdown (in historical perspective)?

There are many alarmist articles on China’s growth slowdown (for a nice specimen, see here).

Apr 9 • Branko Milanovic

The facts of the European (EU27) income convergence

How is Europe becoming more equal

Apr 2 • Branko Milanovic

March 2026

Yuri Andropov: A man who could have become another Deng Xiaoping...or not

A review of Zhores Medvedev’s “Andropov”

Mar 31 • Branko Milanovic

“There is a great disorder under the heaven. The situation is excellent”

A review of Westad and Chen, The Great Transformation: China’s Road from Revolution to Reform

Mar 8 • Branko Milanovic

February 2026

To work or not to work

Can nations not work hard and continue to prosper?

Feb 28 • Branko Milanovic

The ideological implications of China’s economic success

This essay is a (modest) attempt to look at the meaning of China’s experience as the country is being poised to become this year or the next, according…

Feb 26 • Branko Milanovic