Branko Milanović Livres

Addresses just how to measure global inequality among individuals, and shows that inequality is shaped by complex forces often working in different directions. This work analyzes income distribution worldwide using household survey data from more than 100 countries.

A wonderful new book, Milanovic, who has made international inequality his life's work, shows, with devastating logic, just how far we still have to go.', Globe and Mail (Toronto)

Winner of the Bruno Kreisky Prize, Karl Renner Institut A Financial Times Best Economics Book of the Year An Economist Best Book of the Year A Livemint Best Book of the Year One of the world’s leading economists of inequality, Branko Milanovic presents a bold new account of the dynamics that drive inequality on a global scale. Drawing on vast data sets and cutting-edge research, he explains the benign and malign forces that make inequality rise and fall within and among nations. He also reveals who has been helped the most by globalization, who has been held back, and what policies might tilt the balance toward economic justice. “The data [Milanovic] provides offer a clearer picture of great economic puzzles, and his bold theorizing chips away at tired economic orthodoxies.” —The Economist “Milanovic has written an outstanding book...Informative, wide-ranging, scholarly, imaginative and commendably brief. As you would expect from one of the world’s leading experts on this topic, Milanovic has added significantly to important recent works by Thomas Piketty, Anthony Atkinson and François Bourguignon...Ever-rising inequality looks a highly unlikely combination with any genuine democracy. It is to the credit of Milanovic’s book that it brings out these dangers so clearly, along with the important global successes of the past few decades. —Martin Wolf, Financial Times

For the first time in history, the globe is dominated by one economic system. Capitalism prevails because it delivers prosperity and meets desires for autonomy. But it also is unstable and morally defective. Surveying the varieties and futures of capitalism, Branko Milanovic offers creative solutions to improve a system that isn't going anywhere.

Winner of the Bruno Kreisky Prize, Karl Renner Institut A Financial Times Best Economics Book of the Year An Economist Best Book of the Year A Livemint Best Book of the Year One of the world’s leading economists of inequality, Branko Milanovic presents a bold new account of the dynamics that drive inequality on a global scale. Drawing on vast data sets and cutting-edge research, he explains the benign and malign forces that make inequality rise and fall within and among nations. He also reveals who has been helped the most by globalization, who has been held back, and what policies might tilt the balance toward economic justice. “The data [Milanovic] provides offer a clearer picture of great economic puzzles, and his bold theorizing chips away at tired economic orthodoxies.” —The Economist “Milanovic has written an outstanding book...Informative, wide-ranging, scholarly, imaginative and commendably brief. As you would expect from one of the world’s leading experts on this topic, Milanovic has added significantly to important recent works by Thomas Piketty, Anthony Atkinson and François Bourguignon...Ever-rising inequality looks a highly unlikely combination with any genuine democracy. It is to the credit of Milanovic’s book that it brings out these dangers so clearly, along with the important global successes of the past few decades. —Martin Wolf, Financial Times

A leading economist at the World Bank's research division traces the history of financial inequality as reflected in famous stories, analyzing such examples as the monetary disparities between Elizabeth Bennet and Mr. Darcy and the assets of wealthy ancient Romans compared to today's super-rich.

Branko Milanovic charts 200 years of the fascinating history of the discourse on inequality through portraits of six key economists, from Quesnay to Kuznets. In their work and lives, we see how differently each conceived of inequality, and how the subject, prominent in their times, was eclipsed during the Cold War and has become central once again.

Branko Milanovic untersucht in seinem neuen Buch die Entwicklung des Denkens über Ungleichheit durch die Jahrhunderte und die einflussreichsten Ökonomen. Er zeigt, wie Ansichten von Quesnay über Smith, Marx bis Kuznets variierten und beleuchtet die zeitlichen und räumlichen Kontexte, die diese Analysen prägten. Ein faszinierender Einblick in die Geschichte der Ungleichheitsforschung.

Zum ersten Mal in der Geschichte dominiert ein einziges Wirtschaftssystem den Globus. Von Peking bis Porto Alegre: Ob es uns gefällt oder nicht, heute sind wir alle Kapitalisten. Das Mantra der Alternativlosigkeit gehört längst zum rhetorischen Standardrepertoire von Politikern jeder Couleur. Warum konnte sich der Kapitalismus gegen den Kommunismus durchsetzen? Wie steht es um die Aussichten auf eine gerechtere Welt, nun, da seine Vorherrschaft ohne Konkurrenz ist? Spätestens seit der Finanzkrise zeichnet sich ab, dass zwei Ausprägungen im Wettstreit miteinander liegen: ein liberaler Kapitalismus, der mit rechtsstaatlichen Prinzipien und Demokratie einhergeht, und ein autoritärer, in dem Vetternwirtschaft und politische Willkür an der Tagesordnung sind. Wenn es nicht gelingt, so Milanović, Herausforderungen und Probleme wie Ungleichheit, Migration oder Korruption zu meistern, ist nicht nur die liberale Wirtschaftsordnung, sondern auch die Demokratie in Gefahr. Aber der Kapitalismus ist ein von Menschen gemachtes System: Unsere Entscheidungen bestimmen, welche Form er in Zukunft annimmt.