Articles by Branko Milanovic

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Three Depressing Lessons from the Greek Debt Negotiations
Branko Milanovic – Al Jazeera, 6 Jul 2015

Even if Athens remains in the eurozone, the damage to EU credibility has been done. The troika’s more inflexible demands had the objective of demonstrating the inability of any left-wing government to exist.

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Junk the Phrase ‘Human Capital’
Branko Milanovic – Al Jazeera America, 16 Feb 2015

It has added nothing but conceptual confusion for the last 50 years. The term “capital” should be used as it is used in common parlance and as it was used during more than 200 years of economics: for property distinct from one’s labor.

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