globalinequality
Monday, June 26, 2023
Athenian dialogues on global income inequality
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Glaucon (G). Good day, Adeimantus. I have a good news for you. Perhaps you have already heard that global inequality measured by the diffe...
Sunday, June 25, 2023
State capitalism one hundred years ago and today
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A few days ago I re-read the book of Lenin's final years’ speeches and letters. The book covers the years 1922 and 1923 (Lenin died i...
Monday, June 5, 2023
America’s Adam Smith: A review of Glory M. Liu’s “Adam Smith’s America”
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T his is an excellent book. The objective of Glory Liu is to describe how the reception of Adam Smith in America has changed ove...
Thursday, June 1, 2023
“Succession” and the end of the illusion of ethical capitalism
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W hat “Succession” serves us is the end of the illusion of ethical capitalism. The issues are the same as they appeared in the beginnings ...
Thursday, May 4, 2023
Capitalism unchained
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K rishnan Nayar makes three key points in his recently published Liberal Capitalist Democracy: The God that Failed . First, he argues that...
Thursday, April 13, 2023
The chronicle of the revolutions foretold?
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F or almost two decades, Peter Turchin has been involved, with many colleagues and co-authors, in an epochal project: to figure out, using...
Sunday, March 5, 2023
On charisma and greyness under communism
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S everal years ago in a conversation about politics and history, a friend asked me something about the durability of Tito’s regime in Yug...
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