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Branko Milanovic
Personal blog · branko2f7.substack.comeconomicspolitics
Branko Milanovic writes Global Inequality and More 3.0, a personal blog at branko2f7.substack.com about economics and politics. Since 2021, 13 different Hacker News readers have linked it 15 times, most often “Is Norway the New East India Company?”. It is still writing: the last post was on 2026-10-27, and you can follow it by feed.
Too few sampled comments (3) to say how often HN recommends it.?
Why HN links it
Commenters link this Substack's essays on AI and company CEOs, on Norway's reputation for morality, and on Russia and European history. The comments cite or link them without judging the writing.
Summarised by Claude from a sample of 3 HN comments that link here. Each comment is marked recommending, critical or neutral (citing without judging); how this works.
Global inequality and More 3.0. Click to read Global Inequality and More 3.0, by Branko Milanovic,
Most-linked posts?
- Is Norway the New East India Company?2 people · 2 mentions · first linked 2021-07-24
- Sketching the new dysto-utopian world with presence of AI2 people · 2 mentions · first linked 2026-08-07
What Hacker News says?
https://branko2f7.substack.com/p/sketching-the-new-dysto-uto...
Comment linking /p/sketching-the-new-dysto-utopian-world
on “CEO fired developers to make room for AI. Developers create open source AI CEO”Submitted Is Norway the New East India Company? as a story · 173 points
HN discussionIt doesn't matter because in virtue-politics like the OP post, consequences don't really matter . That's e.g. how germany found itself stuck in a pipeline-shaped hole. It may be that norwegians are not as moral as they are portrayed often (e.g. https://branko2f7.substack.com/p/is-norway-the-new-east-indi... ). In any case, i used the Fund to make a hypothetical argument that doesn't need to match with reality.
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on “84% want stronger online privacy laws, but Congress's corruption stalls progress”Submitted To all the newspapers I loved as a story · 49 points
HN discussion"Poland, with the tacit backing of London and Paris, refused transit rights to Soviet forces even to defend Czechoslovakia" Mr. Sachs could have elaborated: "Other East European countries were Germany’s allies, and indeed Poland and Hungary gladly took part in the dismemberment of Czechoslovakia." https://branko2f7.substack.com/p/javais-toujours-raison
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on “European Russophobia and Europe's Rejection of Peace: A Two-Century Failure”Submitted Why inequality matters? as a story · 5 points
HN discussionSubmitted Distinguishing Incomes from Capital and Labor as a story · 3 points
HN discussionSubmitted Branko Milanovic: What if Putin's true goals are different? as a story · 3 points
HN discussionSubmitted Sketching the new dysto-utopian world with presence of AI as a story · 2 points
HN discussionSubmitted China's Road from Revolution to Reform as a story · 2 points
HN discussionSubmitted The importance of Taleb's system (2021) as a story · 2 points
HN discussionSubmitted Theses on Globalization (2023) as a story · 1 points
HN discussionSubmitted Review of Peter Turchin's “End Times” as a story · 1 points
HN discussionSubmitted Not a New Xi as a story · 1 points
HN discussionSubmitted The Aloofness of Pax Sinica as a story · 1 points
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