war 5
- NATO expansion is dangerous above all because it has no defined end point
- Small European states can demand a war with Russia only because they assume somebody else will fight it.
Branko Milanovic
Economist specialising in global income inequality; formerly lead economist in the World Bank research department, now at the CUNY Graduate Center.
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What Branko Milanovic says most about
China 4
- China had more ideological influence in the world during the Cultural Revolution than it has today.
- China's cultural and intellectual output to the world is far smaller than its economic weight.
degrowth 4
- The way to cut emissions is to tax the most emission-intensive goods, not to stop growth.
- Freezing world output at today's level would condemn a quarter of humanity to permanent abject poverty.
Russia 3
- Small European states can demand a war with Russia only because they assume somebody else will fight it.
- A ceasefire along the current lines would end the killing and still leave a long-term settlement between Russia and Ukraine possible.
America 2
- The neoliberal order did not simply spread around the world: the United States made it global.
- Small European states can demand a war with Russia only because they assume somebody else will fight it.
capitalism 2
- Capitalists' incomes are likely to rise because wealthy people own AI companies, so a rising capital share means higher income inequality.
- The fall of communism removed the reason Western capital had to accommodate labour.
climate change 2
- The climate policy everyone has quietly assumed is that poorer countries stay poor, and that is the wrong answer.
- The way to cut emissions is to tax the most emission-intensive goods, not to stop growth.
Europe 2
- Small European states can demand a war with Russia only because they assume somebody else will fight it.
- The Nordic and Baltic push for confrontation with Russia is irresponsible, hypocritical and immoral, and it risks a catastrophe.