The Great (Global) Transformation.

I *highly* recommend @brankomilan.bsky.social and @laywilliams.bsky.social superb books on the history of thought on economic inequality. And if you want to see them discussing these topics, with @undercoverhist.bsky.social @johncassidysays.bsky.social and myself, video below.

Calling anyone interested in inequality and why so many economists ignored it for so long! Watch here for the illuminating thoughts of @brankomilan.bsky.social, @laywilliams.bsky.social, @undercoverhist.bsky.social, @annastansbury.bsky.social Thanks to Wendy Carlin for asking me to moderate.

"The rise of China that was made possible thanks to global neoliberalism made the end of global neoliberalism inevitable."

How ir was during "the Golden Age" and then under the High Globalization.

Last week, we were delighted to host the first launch of the incredible new book by @brankomilan.bsky.social. If you missed the event, you can catch up on the recording now ⬇️

The growth incidence curve: The upward sloping curve implies that the relative (percentage) gains were greater for the rich than the poor, chart @brankomilan.bsky.social

Branko Milanovic @brankomilan.bsky.social is Senior Scholar at the Stone Center on Socio-Economic Inequality at the City University of New York explores why are we becoming increasingly unhappy, when the world is becoming richer and more equal?

Thanks to @adamtooze.bsky.social for sharing my work with @brankomilan.bsky.social about homoploutia on his Substack (h/t @joelliambuehler.bsky.social): open.substack.com/pub/adamtooz...

So, when you commercialize everything, it's not surprising that what you have is a world of loneliness." ( @brankomilan.bsky.social via @jacobinmag.bsky.social ) 3/3 ⏹️ jacobin.com/2025/11/neol...

Dans Capitalism, alone (Le capitalisme, sans rival), @brankomilan.bsky.social est très convaincant en quelques pages. Si vous voulez que les partis démocrates gardent le pouvoir, il faut réduire les droits sociaux des immigrés. Et c'est là que nous avons besoin de vrais politiciens. 1/2

Next was a compelling talk by @brankomilan.bsky.social on national market liberalism in a multipolar world at the LSE www.youtube.com/watch?v=USzO... (3/5)

Totally agree w/ the first paragraph of the review.

On Visions of Inequality

This forthcoming book by @brankomilan.bsky.social looks like it will be excellent. press.uchicago.edu/ucp/books/bo...

📣 Coming up today! There's still time to register for the official launch of @brankomilan.bsky.social's new book 'Great global transformation: national market liberalism in a multipolar world'. Sign up now ⬇️

#AfS: Friedrich Lenger bespricht mit "Visionen der Ungleichheit von @brankomilan.bsky.social ein "eigenwilliges und [...] etwas eigentümliches Buch" und liest ein Plädoyer für die Öffnung der Wirtschaftswissenschaften für Soziologie und Geschichte: library.fes.de/pdf-f...

Today.

How MAGA trumped neoliberalism unherd.com/2025/11/how-... (an excerpt from Chapter 4 of my forthcoming "The Great Global Transformation")

🔜 This week! In his new book, @brankomilan.bsky.social explores our fears and he shows us the fight ahead: as plutocracy returns, global war threatens, and a new system silently shapes our nations, driving malcontent to breaking point. Register now ⬇️

Continuing w/ my film reviews. I cannot say enough how much I enjoyed "Nouvelle Vague" by Richard Linklater. Like Godard's original movie, it breaks all conventions, is difficult to classify anywhere, but you love it.

On "The World Under Capitalism".

I was reading @johncassidysays.bsky.social "Capitalism and its critics". Highly recommend. Very well written, easy to read, well-informed. Goes from Adam Smith to Piketty.

**a mere fraction** of the erudition and incision of Max Kasy’s just-published THE MEANS OF PREDICTION, available now from @uchicagopress.bsky.social and featured in today’s Sunday @nytimes.com:

@brankomilan.bsky.social 's new book 'The Great Global Transformation: National Market Liberalism in a Multipolar World' reviewed by Ivan Radanovic for @lsereviewofbooks.bsky.social ✍️ 🎟️ Register for our book launch on 6 November: buff.ly/d0sVFOw Read the review 👇 buff.ly/geSIAGY

Just finished @brankomilan.bsky.social excellent new volume, “the world under capitalism.” He has curated a wide ranging series of short essays on contemporary and historical issues, such as degrowth & inequality, which will interest to general readers, & those in the social sciences & humanities.

De @drodrik.bsky.social à @brankomilan.bsky.social en passant par la Chine de Xi et la Sicile de Piersanti Mattarella. Riche en essais d’intérêt, ce mois présente aussi deux biographies clefs, d’Alexandre Kojève et d’Alexander Karp. Une sélection de 19 livres. legrandcontinent.eu/fr/2025/10/3...

How an extremely intelligent person, w erudition & experience of politics, academia & journalism would think the best way to present himself to posterity is to write a book of 1000 pages where 600 are selections from the most obscure to the most famous of his writings? Are memoirs collected works?

My today's Substack: “J’avais toujours raison” A review of Raymond Aron’s "Memoires" (a very long read) branko2f7.substack.com/p/javais-tou...

"The reader realizes that he is an unwilling participant in a project of self-aggrandizement and self-centerdness; that the vanity of the author is so enormous and has taken over everything to the detriment of the author’s own interests themselves."

My today's Substack: “J’avais toujours raison” A review of Raymond Aron’s "Memoires" (a very long read) branko2f7.substack.com/p/javais-tou...

On Thursday 6 November, @lseinequalities.bsky.social and @lseevents.bsky.social will host #BrankoMilanovic @brankomilan.bsky.social for a launch of the book. Find details and register below 👇

Super excited for this @stoneeconucl.bsky.social event next Tuesday! With @brankomilan.bsky.social, @johncassidysays.bsky.social, @undercoverhist.bsky.social, @annastansbury.bsky.social. On-line and open registration.

There is a strong positive association between equality and development over the long run — that's what this new study based on our historical series available on wid.world is clearly showing. Key findings in thread 🧵(1/9)👇

A strange encounter branko2f7.substack.com/p/a-strange-...

Absolutely phenomenal discussion of Zach Carter's great "The price of peace" biography of Keynes and of Keynesianism--with Paul Krugman as an interviewer (Graduate Center City University of New York). www.youtube.com/watch?v=0F-M...

London, Nov 6

On Russian ideologies

Grim #1001GIR

📝 "No one describes better and quantifies with such precision the global transformations now underway than Branko Milanovic" Join us for the first launch event of the highly acclaimed new book by @brankomilan.bsky.social on 6 November. Register now ⬇️ buff.ly/d0sVFOw

And Ulyanov said to me.... branko2f7.substack.com/p/a-strange-...

Two ideologies.

Muito interessante texto de B.M. sobre um assunto q temos tratado bastas vezes por ser de seminal importância p/ se compreender a variedade chinesa de capitalismo e talvez a principal razão do seu êxito: A reserva do poder de decidir para a classe política, evitando a compra de poder pelo capital.

The long NEP, China and Xi From the Long March to the Long NEP branko2f7.substack.com/p/the-long-n...

A strange encounter "They very kindly said goodbye to me. And I looked back at the three of them and wished them well." branko2f7.substack.com/p/a-strange-...

A strange encounter "They very kindly said goodbye to me. And I looked back at the three of them and wished them well." branko2f7.substack.com/p/a-strange-...

No. 1. The Age of Discord: Fragmented politics and unhinged discourse branko2f7.substack.com/p/the-age-of...

My today's Substack: Russia: An ideology for domestic purposes and another for foreign branko2f7.substack.com/p/russia-an-...

My today's Substack: Russia: An ideology for domestic purposes and another for foreign branko2f7.substack.com/p/russia-an-...

Join us for the launch of the highly anticipated new book by @brankomilan.bsky.social 📖 He reveals the seismic shifts that are shaping our world, with global neoliberalism on its last legs. As the status quo of the past fifty years crumbles, he asks what remains in its wake? 🎟️ buff.ly/ggNJ4pW