@brankomilan.bsky.social
1) Income inequality; 2) Politics; 3) History; 4) Soccer. Author of "Global inequality" and "Capitalism, Alone" (2019). Stone Center, CUNY; LSE, London
Nice piece in @brankomilan.bsky.social's Substack about inequality and envy. Highly recommended!
10.02.2026 22:50 — 👍 4 🔁 1 💬 0 📌 0
Qué bueno esto de @andreacapussela.bsky.social sobre el libro de @brankomilan.bsky.social.
legrandcontinent.eu/fr/2026/02/1...
My review of @brankomilan.bsky.social's great book, taking issue with its implicit pessimism.
On @grandcontinent.bsky.social:
legrandcontinent.eu/fr/2026/02/1...
📝New research by @billywoom.bsky.social and @doniakamel.bsky.social uncovers how skin tone shapes player recognition in professional #football — even when performance is identical⚽️
These biases translate into lower market valuations for darker-skinned players.
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and generally high quality of the work. Even more extraordinary since Aragon was not a historian.
10.02.2026 09:34 — 👍 1 🔁 0 💬 1 📌 0
Super interesting article by Jean Albertini on Louis Aragon's three volume history of the Soviet Union; the origins of the book, 2.5 years of hard and conscientious labor that Araon dedicated to it, use of Russian, German and French archival sources,
books.openedition.org/pus/7590?lan...
read my lips : no new trips
08.02.2026 19:09 — 👍 12 🔁 2 💬 0 📌 0In our latest blog,
@maxlawsontin.bsky.social digs into Adam Smith’s writing and shows a version of Smith who hated monopolies, feared rich-people political power, and thought national wellbeing = wellbeing of the many, not the few.
Read more👇
www.equals.ink/p/adam-smith...
There’s a bit in the intro to “Capitalism” where @brankomilan.bsky.social writes about how profit and exchange are universally understood across cultures that really struck me. I think that universality leads that metric for achievement to crowd out all others.
09.02.2026 08:09 — 👍 1 🔁 1 💬 1 📌 0
@brankomilan.bsky.social : "The concern with poverty is a price that the rich are willing to pay so that no one questions their incomes." branko2f7.substack.com/p/why-we-all...
08.02.2026 16:22 — 👍 1 🔁 1 💬 0 📌 0Wow! Thank you!!
08.02.2026 20:45 — 👍 0 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0Great analysis
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So a proponent of concern with poverty does not disagree that other people’s incomes enter his utility function; he just wants his homo economicus to limit his attention to a group of people (the poor) and to disregard others.
branko2f7.substack.com/p/why-we-all...
The only way out is to state one may be concerned only w/ one's income and that society does not exist in which case, the concerns with both poverty and inequality become irrelevant.
No other way out.
Why We All Care About Inequality (But Are Loath to Admit It)
branko2f7.substack.com/p/why-we-all...
The point of this long Substack is to prove that caring for poverty and not caring for inequality, as some right-wing economists claim, is internally inconsistent. If one claims to care about poverty, he must (by the very logic of the argument) be concerned about inequality too.
08.02.2026 01:12 — 👍 11 🔁 3 💬 1 📌 0This disposition to admire, and almost to worship, the rich and the powerful… is the great and most universal cause of the corruption of our moral sentiments."
07.02.2026 21:37 — 👍 12 🔁 5 💬 0 📌 0
You cannot say it better than Adam Smith:
"In the courts of princes, in the drawing-rooms of the great, where success depends not upon merit but upon favour, truth is seldom heard.
www.equals.ink/p/adam-smith...
The concern with poverty is a price that the rich are willing to pay so that no one questions their incomes. For many of the rich, helping the poor is “social money laundering,” an activity engaged in by those who have acquired wealth under dubious circumstances.
07.02.2026 18:18 — 👍 7 🔁 3 💬 0 📌 0
My today's Substack.
Why We All Care About Inequality (But Are Loath to Admit It)
Is it envy or justice?
branko2f7.substack.com/p/why-we-all...
Why We All Care About Inequality (But Are Loath to Admit It)
My critique of Martin Feldstein
stonecenter.gc.cuny.edu/files/2007/1...
The publication of the US edition of this book is scheduled for March 7.
www.penguin.co.uk/authors/3021...
¿Por qué Stalin necesitaba matar a tanta gente? Medio millón de ejecutados, la cúpula del Ejército Rojo diezmada, los viejos bolcheviques eliminados. Las purgas de Hitler tenían una lógica brutal. Las de Stalin desafían toda racionalidad.
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"Comrade Djugashvili said the following: “I do happen to agree with comrade Bronshtein in this particular case although our agreement is phenomenological in the sense that we simply agree superficially even if the reasons for the agreement are entirely different."
02.02.2026 16:45 — 👍 0 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0
A strange encounter
branko2f7.substack.com/p/a-strange-...
New WP. "Historical Social Tables: Advantages, Methodology, Problems", Erfurth, Gómez León, Gabbuti, & Milanovic.
Fascinating methodologically and substantively!
@brankomilan.bsky.social @philerfurth.bsky.social @mgzl.bsky.social @ggabbuti.bsky.social
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Some people were all in favor of imperialism until it came to them.
02.02.2026 00:06 — 👍 7 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0
Rather than a toxin that produces a sharp spike in mortality, inequality is “more like a fog that gradually seeps into every corner of social life”
– Richard Wilkinson & @profkepickett.bsky.social of @equalitytrust.bsky.social in our latest blog post #LSEInequalitiesBlog
My today's Substack:
Intellectual narcissism or political relevance
Did imperialism just reappear yesterday?
branko2f7.substack.com/p/intellectu...
