I have not thought of this until I had lunch with Anwar Shaikh today. I have personally known Anwar for at least ten years. But only today it struck me that I was meeting a hero of my...
http://glineq.blogspot.com/2024/04/the-world-according-to-garegnani.html
In classical Marxism, communism is defined as a society of material abundance. It is a society where goods flow in abundance (“after the productive forces have…increased…all the spring...
http://glineq.blogspot.com/2024/04/abundance-capitalism-and-climate-change.html
I was asked several times, and most recently only a couple days ago, why in Visions of Inequality I do not discuss Keynes. He doesn't have a chapter like the other six authors and when I men...
http://glineq.blogspot.com/2024/04/why-not-keynes-keynes-uneasy.html
Professor Tongdong Bai (whom I had the pleasure to meet in Shanghai and who kindly alerted me to his new book) has recently published a book called perhaps somewhat provocatively Against Politic...
http://glineq.blogspot.com/2024/04/the-order-of-inequality.html
The Industrial Revolution in North-Western Europe, studied in innumerable papers and books, happened largely “endogenously” by building upon the Commercial Revolution of the Middl...
http://glineq.blogspot.com/2024/03/should-poor-countries-remain-poor.html
I always loved Saturdays. When I was a college student, quite improbably my parents decided that I would be a “technical executor” of our family’s monthly budget. My ...
http://glineq.blogspot.com/2024/02/before-police-arrives-bookstores-on.html
Several things came together. A friend sent me this post by N S Lyons . Then, independently, a short conversation on Twitter followed upon the statistics showing that today’s young people ...
http://glineq.blogspot.com/2024/02/freedom-to-be-wrong-only-real-advantage.html
I was always in love with (in-print) newspapers. In the past you did not have to write “in print”. There were no other newspapers. Writing “in print” was redundant; and incomprehensi...
http://glineq.blogspot.com/2024/02/to-all-newspapers-i-loved.html
Physiocrats are not much read today. This is unfortunate because many of their views have present-day relevance. Their writings were often intentionally murky and paradoxic...
http://glineq.blogspot.com/2024/01/the-politics-of-physiocracy-quesnay-and.html
I spent an extremely hectic and intellectually stimulating week in Berlin. Despite my reasonable following of German politics (nobody interested in Europe can afford to ignore German politics) I ...
http://glineq.blogspot.com/2023/11/the-three-german-fears.html
In an interesting paper he tweeted yesterday, Kaushik Basu discusses, using a mathematical model, an old problem: how rulers once they are in power cannot leave it even if...
http://glineq.blogspot.com/2023/10/there-is-no-exit-for-dictators.html
Over the years I have had political and ideological discussions with at least three groups of people and have concluded that these discussions are, almost entirely, futile ...
http://glineq.blogspot.com/2023/10/on-general-futility-of-political.html
I learned about the newest dispute between Serbia and Kosovo in a New York café when I overheard a very animated conversation between a lady who seemed to blame Serbia for World War I (and ...
http://glineq.blogspot.com/2023/09/why-is-serbia-kosovo-situation-globally.html
June 3, 1968 was a beautiful late Spring day in Belgrade. The school year was just about to end, and, for me the best days were about to begin: until the mid-July when many ...
As I suppose many older people do, I was thinking about the most important parts of my life, not only personally, but socially: how did the social forces around me affect m...
http://glineq.blogspot.com/2023/08/thinkin-bout-revolution.html
The expansion of BRICS membership is directly related to the expansion of NATO and NATO-like alliances around the world. When this statement is read superficially without u...
http://glineq.blogspot.com/2023/08/brics-and-non-alignment-today.html
When I wrote my chapter on Adam Smith in The Visions of inequality (to be published October 10) I considered including a section discussing Smith’s views on slavery. I eventual...
http://glineq.blogspot.com/2023/08/why-slave-owners-never-willingly.html
WHAT IS YOUR TAKE ON THE RIOTS THAT ARE GOING ON IN FRANCE AT THE MOMENT? To be completely honest, I don't have a full understanding of the situation. However, upon superficially examining...
http://glineq.blogspot.com/2023/07/on-global-inequality-chinas-rise-war-in.html
The ideological history of the idea of equality (“Equality: The History of an Elusive Idea ”) is an ambitious, erudite and well-written book by Darrin M. McMahon. In el...
http://glineq.blogspot.com/2023/07/equality-based-on-exclusion.html
There is a news items today that, in simply reaffirming in an extreme form what was happening in the past thirty years, struck me. The Prime Ministers of the Netherlands and Luxembourg, presuma...
http://glineq.blogspot.com/2023/07/the-new-colonialism-or-how-some.html
Glaucon (G). Good day, Adeimantus. I have a good news for you. Perhaps you have already heard that global inequality measured by the differences in real incomes between people has decreased sig...
http://glineq.blogspot.com/2023/06/athenian-dialogues-on-global-income.html
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 in January 1924). I grabbed the book simply because I saw i...
http://glineq.blogspot.com/2023/06/state-capitalism-one-hundred-years-ago.html
This is an excellent book. The objective of Glory Liu is to describe how the reception of Adam Smith in America has changed over the past two hundred years, and, using Adam Smith ...
http://glineq.blogspot.com/2023/06/americas-adam-smith-review-of-glory-m.html
What “Succession” serves us is the end of the illusion of ethical capitalism. The issues are the same as they appeared in the beginnings of the commercial society, and were discussed by Ber...
http://glineq.blogspot.com/2023/06/succession-and-end-of-illusion-of.html
Krishnan Nayar makes three key points in his recently published Liberal Capitalist Democracy: The God that Failed . First, he argues that bourgeois revolutions frequently failed to lead to demo...
http://glineq.blogspot.com/2023/05/capitalism-unchained.html