● The Great Global Transformation: The United States, China, and the Remaking of the World Economic Order
Branko Milanovic
Review via Compact
According to Milanović, our decaying neoliberal order is so globalized and over-extended that it has coiled back in on itself, leaving us to commodify even our own leisure time by becoming increasingly incapable of enjoying it if it is not shared and display...
The strongest version of this narrative presents a coherent picture of economic and technological systems in flux, with each book offering a distinct lens: Milanovic’s critique of neoliberalism’s decline, Sharma’s technical optimism about quant finance, Jackson’s environmental alarmism, McNeill’s pragmatic take on AI’s limits, and Coibion and Gorodnichenko’s empirical challenge to economic orthodoxy. The summaries avoid overt manipulation, but the inclusion of affiliate links introduces a subtle...