globalinequality

  A s people who follow my feed know, I have recently reread the three volumes of Leszek Kolakowski’s magisterial Main Currents of Marxism ....

M any journalists, commentators and political scientists see the recent policy changes in China as “the return to communism”. They in part...

  S ebastian Conrad’s book “ What is global history ?” is in many ways important for economists and economic historians. This is not only be...

  I n the eighteenth century, English-led East India Company gradually managed to gain control of most of India. Its rule was a disaster for...

  Is luxury consumption   bad? Should it be limited? At the time of high inequality, and especially inequality driven by the very top of inc...

  Is it possible to define a series of approaches to global problems for the group of people who may be called “global progressives” (GPs)? ...

  In the first chapter of Volume 3 of Main Currents of Marxism Leszek Kolakowski discusses practical and theoretical disagreements regardin...