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Branko Milanovic
@brankomilan.bsky.social
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1) Income inequality; 2) Politics; 3) History; 4) Soccer.
Author of "Global inequality" and "Capitalism, Alone" (2019).
Stone Center, CUNY; LSE, London

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Branko Milanović is a Serbian-American economist. He is most known for his work on income distribution and inequality.

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Andrea Capussela @andreacapussela.bsky.social · 1d
Splendid text, by @newlefteviews.bsky.social, reviewing a book I haven't read, Beckert's, and one, @brankomilan.bsky.social's, which I would like to review
www.newstatesman.com/ideas/2025/1...
How not to talk about capitalism
The more it penetrates our daily lives, the less we seem to understand the “system that runs the world”
www.newstatesman.com

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Branko Milanovic @brankomilan.bsky.social · 2d
Perhaps French...and Corsican.
And Russian...and Georgian.
And German...and Austrian.

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Chris Bertram @crookedfootball.bsky.social · 2d
Just discovered that it's possible to stream quite a number of French-language films for free via this channel. One of them, l'Etabli, was already on my to-watch list. But if anyone has recommendations ... Note the category "dramedy"!
www.tv5mondeplus.com

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Practical Ecommerce @practicalecommerce.com · 3d
"The Rise of Global Tariffs, Explained" | U.S. income inequality & China's private enterprise have created national tensions, according to "The Great Global Transformation," a new #book by economist @brankomilan.bsky.social. Via @yestare-nyc.bsky.social. www.practicalecommerce.com/the-rise-of-...
U.S. and China shipping containers

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Chris Bertram @crookedfootball.bsky.social · 4d
Always troubled by this from @brankomilan.bsky.social but wonder at what level of income we could have lives as good as we have now just by cutting out the crap. And that's complicated for many reasons. You can't do that individually and also involves illiberal judgements about what's crap
The Illusion of “Degrowth” in a Poor and Unequal World - Stone Center on Socio-Economic Inequality
An excerpt from Branko Milanovic's latest book, The World Under Capitalism: Observations on Economics Politics, History, and Culture, a 2025 collection of his essays from the last decade.
stonecenter.gc.cuny.edu

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Branko Milanovic @brankomilan.bsky.social · 4d
are created and driven by economic, social and political forces.
To understand their rise (and eventual fall) you have to understand society.

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Branko Milanovic @brankomilan.bsky.social · 4d
I can sympathize with people who suffer from TDS. I have had similar syndromes before. But, if you are serious and try to think things through, you have to realize that individual leaders, however important they seem to the naked eye,

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Branko Milanovic @brankomilan.bsky.social · 4d
I don't think that anybody knows (incl. Gorbachev himself) what his objectives or his inspiration were. I think Deng saw him correctly; he said (perhaps too harshly) "he is an idiot".

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Branko Milanovic @brankomilan.bsky.social · 4d
Tucker has a two-volume biography of Stalin (it was planned for three). Both excellent. But to have 4 enormous volumes on LBJ? Really?

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Branko Milanovic @brankomilan.bsky.social · 4d
When you see the Caro exhibition in the New York Historical Museum, you think it is a self-indulegent conceit to write biographies that run for 4,000 pages. Kershaw has a two-volume biography of Hitler.

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Branko Milanovic @brankomilan.bsky.social · 4d
To reinforce this point. Both Proust and Marx wrote in many volumes. A la recherche was published in 7 or 8 volumes: Capital obviously in three. So not a single book was running to 1,000 pages as many contemporary books do.
brankomilan.bsky.social Branko Milanovic @brankomilan.bsky.social · 5d
Today's writers should realize than in 99.999 % of cases they are neither Proust, nor Marx, nor Tolstoy. And if they are paid lots of money to stay at home and write, it does not mean that we are all dying to read them.
And that 99.999 % of people who write about their books have not read them.

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Branko Milanovic @brankomilan.bsky.social · 4d
My new Substack.

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Branko Milanovic @brankomilan.bsky.social · 4d
Writing in several volumes is much better if you really need 1,000 pages.

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Branko Milanovic @brankomilan.bsky.social · 4d
No, I do not think so. Soviet reforms were different: "state orders" instead of central planning. Never management by workers. For some reason it was never a popular option in the USSR since the Workers' Opposition was defeated in the 1920s.