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Branko Milanović
Personal blog · glineq.blogspot.comeconomicspolitics
Branko Milanović writes globalinequality, a personal blog at glineq.blogspot.com about economics and politics. Since 2016, 26 different Hacker News readers have linked it 39 times, most often “Is Norway the New East-India-Company?”. It is still writing: the last post was on 2024-12-29, and you can follow it by feed.
Too few sampled comments (10) to say how often HN recommends it.?
Why HN links it
Branko Milanović's economics blog covers global inequality, poverty, social mobility and post-socialist Yugoslavia. HN commenters cite it as a source on those topics and on worker-owned firms.
Summarised by Claude from a sample of 10 HN comments that link here. Each comment is marked recommending, critical or neutral (citing without judging); how this works.
Most-linked posts?
- Is Norway the New East-India-Company?3 people · 3 mentions · first linked 2021-07-27
- How Is the World Ruled?2 people · 2 mentions · first linked 2018-02-19
- Dutiful dirges of Davos (2018)2 people · 2 mentions · first linked 2018-01-21
- The Importance of Taleb’s System: The Fourth Quadrant to the Skin in the Game2 people · 2 mentions · first linked 2018-02-15
- Branko Milanović: Let’s go back to mercantilism and trade blocs2 people · 2 mentions · first linked 2022-10-22
- Impatience: A deep cause of Western failure in handling the pandemic?2 people · 2 mentions · first linked 2020-12-15
What Hacker News says?
>While the tech bodyshops (TCS, Infosys, etc.) might have a poor reputation in the US, these companies have been absolutely critical in helping move tens of millions into middle-class respectability This is related to the Elephant Curve brought out by Globalization https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Elephant_Curve That is more or less, middle classes from developing countries exploded in number. While for the develop…
Comment linking /2022/10/lets-go-back-to-mercantilism-and-trade.html
on “India lifted 415M out of poverty in 15 years, says UN”Submitted I Lost My Past (2017) as a story · 141 points
HN discussionyou would not want a country in which politicians decide alone against the interest of their businesses and their own people That's pretty much exactly what Putin or Kim jong un is doing https://glineq.blogspot.com/2022/03/the-end-of-end-of-histor...
Comment linking /2022/03/the-end-of-end-of-history-what-have-we.html
on “Russia to legalize software piracy”Submitted Capitalism, Alone as a story · 89 points
HN discussionBrando Milanovic wrote up a pretty clear-eyed description of the problems with worker-owned enterprises, even in states that market socialists look to as better examples such as the former Yugoslavia [1]. He speaks with some authority, as both an economist and someone who worked in one of those. To me, it seems like there are important unsolved problems with worker-managed enterprises at scale (exceptions like Mondr…
Comment linking /2021/11/socialist-enterprise-power-structure.html
on “List of Worker-Owned Tech Cooperatives Worldwide”Submitted Is Norway the New East-India-Company? as a story · 52 points
HN discussionJust to note - Branko Milanovic (cited by Roser) backed up Hickel on many of the main poinst: https://glineq.blogspot.com/2019/02/global-poverty-over-long...
Comment linking /2019/02/global-poverty-over-long-term.html
on “A letter to Steven Pinker about global poverty”Submitted Hayekian communism as a story · 49 points
HN discussion>I believe social mobility comes from opportunity - and we live in a society with more opportunity than ever. Actually social mobility is on the decline in America. It's also lower than in a lot of more redistributive states like the nordic countries, france, canada, etc. Is opportunity on the decline in America? Maybe if we did welfare like those states it would go back up. >The failure to leverage that opportunity…
Comment linking /2016/04/the-schumpeter-hotel-income-inequality.html
on “Evidence That Robots Are Winning the Race for American Jobs”Submitted The Importance of Taleb’s System: The Fourth Quadrant to the Skin in the Game as a story · 38 points
HN discussionthey don't fit the narrative... happy people are boring news. Read Branko Milanovic take about Yugoslavia: "How I lost my past" https://glineq.blogspot.com/2017/09/how-i-lost-my-past.html
Comment linking /2017/09/how-i-lost-my-past.html
on “The Last Soviet Generation”Submitted How Is the World Ruled? as a story · 4 points
HN discussionTerrible decision. Very bad and sloppy economics, a simplified version of what sociology and political science have been doing much better for over 40 years, as if before these crucial contributions we had no idea that institutions, forms of power and social conflict affect economic outcomes. Branko Milanovic has aptly and rather amusingly defined Acemoglu's naive theorizing as "Wikipedia entries with regressions" h…
Comment linking /2014/08/my-take-on-acemoglu-robinson-critique.html
on “Sveriges Riksbank Prize in Economic Sciences in Memory of Alfred Nobel 2024”Submitted Is Norway the New East India Company? as a story · 3 points
HN discussionIncome inequality is probably not the best measure. The thing I'd really like to see is a good study of income mobility across 3 or more generations. But inequality can act as a proxy for mobility. Check this: So now that we have organized our thinking, let us consider the empirical evidence. Most famously, it comes from the recent work of Miles Corak, building on previous studies by Gary Solon, Blunden, Gregg and M…
Comment linking /2016/04/the-schumpeter-hotel-income-inequality.html
on “Economic Inequality Is Worse Than We Think (2015)”Submitted Degrowth: Solving the Impasse by Magical Thinking as a story · 3 points
HN discussionOne thing I think is important to anchor discussions of inequality and mobility is the great gatsby curve: http://glineq.blogspot.com/2016/04/the-schumpeter-hotel-inco... https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Great_Gatsby_curve Basically there are no countries which are both highly unequal and highly meritocratic. Perhaps our path towards more social mobility is straight-forward wealth redistribution.
Comment linking /2016/04/the-schumpeter-hotel-income-inequality.html
on “Meritocracy hasn’t worked in Britain – it’s time for a radical rethink”Submitted Why were the Balkans underdeveloped? A geographical hypothesis as a story · 3 points
HN discussionThis bog post by Branko Milanović touches on this. (A development and inequality specialist) https://glineq.blogspot.com/2018/06/bob-allens-new-poverty-m... I when I carefully read it the claim was poverty in the developed world is underestimated. As is poverty in the developing world.
Comment linking /2018/06/bob-allens-new-poverty-machine-and-its.html
on “40M Americans Living in Poverty? False”Submitted Why “Make America Denmark Again” Will Not Happen as a story · 3 points
HN discussionSubmitted Branko Milanović: Let’s go back to mercantilism and trade blocs as a story · 2 points
HN discussionSubmitted Is Norway the New East India Company? as a story · 2 points
HN discussionSubmitted Impatience: A deep cause of Western failure in handling the pandemic? as a story · 2 points
HN discussionSubmitted Impatience: A deep cause of Western failure in handling the pandemic? as a story · 2 points
HN discussionSubmitted Is Citizenship Just a Rent? as a story · 2 points
HN discussionSubmitted Democracy or dictatorship: which works better? as a story · 2 points
HN discussionSubmitted Global poverty over the long-term: legitimate issues as a story · 2 points
HN discussionSubmitted The illusion of “degrowth” in a poor and unequal world as a story · 2 points
HN discussionSubmitted The World According to Garegnani as a story · 1 points
HN discussionSubmitted Notes on global income inequality: A non-technical summary as a story · 1 points
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