On 1 April in Berlin in our series of talks entitled “Economics beyond the Swabian hausfrau” Branko Milanović discussed the evolution in global income inequality and its political implications; in particular, the rise of the middle class in Asia, income stagnation of the rich countries’ middle classes, with special emphasis on the current European situation, migration as part of globalization, and the emergence of global plutocracy (global top 1 percent).
Economics
J. D. Alt – The Millennials’ Money
The video is by an architect, J . D. Alt, who asked why the world could not afford to build the vision he had for it, and realised that the only obstacle was lack of […]
Austerity
Mark Blyth and Carrie Nordlund – Turkey, Greece, Italy, etc.
Mark Blyth, political economist at Brown’s Watson Institute, and Carrie Nordlund, political scientist and associate director of Brown’s Master of Public Affairs program, share their take on the week’s news. Today’s topics include Trump’s spat […]
Geopolitics
Scott Ritter, Judge Napolitano – Evaluation of Iranian attack of US base in Qatar
23 June 2025
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