Links 2/24/2021 | naked capitalism
I tried to read the latest Branko Milanovic blog, but the man just endlessly argues in bad faith on these issues. I’m referring specifically to his engagement with the degrowth school. I understand that his work on global inequality is quite commendable. He cites/links to no one, and provides his own crude interpretation of what the “degrowers” want in order to vaguely bash it as magical thinking. He handwaves away a very nuanced and compelling critique of GDP as a measure of prosperity with nonsense like: “people migrate from Morocco to France because France is a richer country and ...
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