Branko Milanovic: Why were the Balkans underdeveloped? A geographical hypothesis

The World Wealth and Income Database (WID.world) aims to provide open and convenient access to the most extensive available database on the historical evolution of the world distribution of income and wealth, both within countries […]

Heard this sort of thing before? Public libraries became an important element of the Commons and democracy. They too are to become commodities. See where that ends (click here) This article was such a bloody […]

Germany’s commitment to austerity and its refusal to support fundamental reform of the euro is recklessly complacent. Read here