Saturday, September 26, 2015

Branko Milanovic — Imperialism and World War I


A review of Dominic Lieven’s new book “The end of Tsarist Russia: The march toward World War I and Revolution” (Viking, 2015, 430 pages). It is about the intersection of politics (power) and economics (possession) in imperialism and colonialism — and how it can lead to stumbling into war.

Global Inequality
Imperialism and World War I
Branko Milanovic | Visiting Presidential Professor at City University of New York Graduate Center and senior scholar at the Luxembourg Income Study (LIS), and formerly lead economist in the World Bank's research department and senior associate at Carnegie Endowment for International Peace

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