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Branko Milanovic
Personal blog · brankomilanovic.substack.comeconomicspolitics
Branko Milanovic writes Global Inequality and More, a personal blog at brankomilanovic.substack.com about economics and politics. Since 2021, 3 different Hacker News readers have linked it 3 times, most often “Degrowth: Solving the Climate Impasse by Magical Thinking”. It is still writing: the last post was on 2026-10-17, and you can follow it by feed.
Too few sampled comments (2) to say how often HN recommends it.?
Why HN links it
HN readers link Branko Milanovic's Substack as a source on economics, including a post on degrowth and global income distribution. Another commenter names his book reviews and a piece on impatience as writing they valued.
Summarised by Claude from a sample of 2 HN comments that link here. Each comment is marked recommending, critical or neutral (citing without judging); how this works.
Global inequality and other economics.
Most-linked posts?
- Degrowth: Solving the Climate Impasse by Magical Thinking2 people · 2 mentions · first linked 2021-08-29
What Hacker News says?
> I did not know that "degrowth" people are for banning quality of life improvements for all economic strata. Now you know. > Do you have any sources because this just sounds like a giant strawman. https://brankomilanovic.substack.com/p/degrowth-solving-the-... "If one wants to keep world GDP more or less as now one must (A) “freeze” today’s global income distributions so that some 10-15% of the world population con…
Comment linking /p/degrowth-solving-the-impasse-by-magical
on “Fewer people are buying electric cars in the US”Submitted Degrowth: Solving the Climate Impasse by Magical Thinking as a story · 10 points
HN discussionHis book reviews. Or this: https://brankomilanovic.substack.com/p/impatience-a-deep-cau...
Comment linking /p/impatience-a-deep-cause-of-western
on “To all the newspapers I loved”