There are weird transformations.
US democrats are now the most pro-war party.
German Greens are in favor of a nuclear war.
Russian communists are ready to kill all Ukrainians.

Maybe this is total bs, but reading the flower arrangements is next level Beijing-ology.

I suspect people will now mock these protestors for being so nerdy and physically inept and harmless, but an hour ago they were terrorists and animals justifying a police force of a thousand militarised cops

If you want a good primer on the unfolding disaster in Columbia University, listen to this talk I had with Joseph A. Howley, who teaches classics there and is in the thick of it. thenation.com/podcast/activi…

It is incredible but true that the US police at different cities are more at war with students over an issue which strictly speaking has nothing to do with internal US politics than they would be if it did.

And this is almost 20y of real wage. In 1999, it was ~1/3 of its 1989-90 level.

Run by chance into some of my old data. These are real earnings of workers' households in Russia 1987-96. Much worse than the Great Depression in the US.

Brank Milanović Branko Milanovic on whether material abundance is possible in a capitalist economy.

'To reach a society of abundance requires that we accept absence of technological progress or economic stationarity. The question then becomes whether capitalist society can ever be

Abondance, capitalisme et changement climatique.

Bogota June & July.

Fairly applicable today:
'It is also sweet to watch great armies,
opposing forces in a war, drawn up
in the field, when you are in no danger.'
Lucretius, On Nature of Things

Am looking forward to the soon translation of 'Visions of Inequality'.

A detailed review of Visions of Inequality (in Italian)
fataturchinaeconomics.com/2023/11/appunt…