Capitalism, Alone

Branko Milanovic

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• At Foreign Affairs, read Branko Milanovic’s argument that, rather than widespread illness, the “real danger” of the current international COVID-19 response is “social collapse”
• At the Guardian, read Professor Milanovic’s argument that, rather than being in a state of “crisis,” in fact capitalism is stronger than ever, both in terms of its geographical preeminence and its expansion to areas (like leisure time and social media) where it has commodified things that were never, historically, objects of transaction
• Read Milanovic’s Foreign Affairs cover story on the two types of capitalism—“liberal meritocratic” (exemplified by the United States, Western European nations, Japan, and a few others) and “state-led, political” (exemplified by China)—that jostle for world domination
• On the American Enterprise Institute podcast Political Economy, listen to Milanovic discuss the political significance of inequality—and the compatibility of capitalism and democracy (or read the transcript)
• Listen to Milanovic discuss Capitalism, Alone on The American Interest’s podcast (or read the transcript)
• Watch an interview with Milanovic on the Bertelsmann Foundation’s web series, “How to Fix Democracy”
• On the Planet Money (NPR) spinoff series The Indicator, listen to Milanovic discuss two factors that contribute to increasing global inequality: (1) the increasing prevalence of “timecard capitalists”—individuals who earn both high capital income and high labor income; and (2) “assortative mating,” the trend in which people with the same socioeconomic backgrounds increasingly marry each other
• On the Economist podcast Money Talks, listen to Milanovic discuss the battle between liberal capitalism and political capitalism
• Listen to Milanovic discuss Capitalism, Alone on the Slate podcast The Gist
• Listen to a conversation with Milanovic at the Literary Hub podcast Keen On
• On WBUR (Boston, MA)’s Here and Now, listen to Milanovic discuss recent civil unrest across the globe—in Hong Kong, Chile, Catalonia, Iran, and Lebanon—which he attributes to a feeling among the poor of being excluded from the political and social life of their countries—and, increasingly, denied a fair shot at those countries’ income growth
• At Bloomberg and Reuters, read more about Milanovic’s analysis of the economic underpinnings of recent political unrest in Chile
• Read an excerpt from Capitalism, Alone at Evonomics
• At Quillette, read an excerpt from Capitalism, Alone on one of the less-discussed drivers of economic inequality: assortive mating, when the rich marry the rich
• Read an interview with Professor Milanovic at the Berggruen Institute publication The WorldPost
• At Global Policy [in English] and Letras Libres [in Spanish], read Milanovic on why reports of capitalism’s imminent demise have been greatly exaggerated
• Read a Q&A with Milanovic at ProMarket, the blog of the University of Chicago’s Stigler Center for the Study of the Economy and the State
• Read an excerpt from Capitalism, Alone at ProMarket
• Read a New Yorker feature, including discussion of Milanovic’s research, on the increasingly recognized cyclical boom-and-bust nature of inequality
• On Social Europe’s video podcast series, watch Milanovic discuss “why we are all capitalists now” with SE Editor-in-Chief Henning Meyer (or listen to the audio version)
• On the Oxfam podcast From Poverty to Power, listen to Milanovic’s conversation about global inequality with London School of Economics Professor (and Oxfam strategic adviser) Duncan Green
• Listen to Milanovic’s conversation with Dr Alice Evans of King’s College London on her podcast Rocking Our Priors
• Watch Milanovic lecture on Capitalism, Alone at The Graduate Center, CUNY (December 2019)
• Listen to Milanovic lecture on Capitalism, Alone at the London School of Economics and Political Science
• At El Mostrador, watch Milanovic discuss inequality in Chile at the 2019 LSE Festival in London [in English with Spanish captioning]
• Watch a brief interview with Milanovic in advance of his November 2019 lecture at the Institut Barcelona d’Estudis Internacionals [in English]
• Read an ARA interview with Milanovic [in Catalan]
• Read about Capitalism, Alone at El Confidencial [in Spanish]
• At La Croix, read an interview with Milanovic on global capitalism as it pertains to modern Africa [in French]
• Read an interview with Milanovic at Dnevnik [in Slovenian]
• Read a Frankfurter Allgemeine interview with Milanovic [in German]
• At Le Monde, read Milanovic’s argument that capitalism has become too powerful [in French]
• Read Milanovic’s in-depth conversation with NRC Handelsblad [in Dutch]
• Follow Branko Milanovic’s blog, globalinequality

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