Branko Milanovic on Different Visions of Inequality

Writing a book like that makes you really think brutally about the past. It makes you really think about the current time and also how the future would look at you.
Branko Milanovic

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Branko Milanovic is a Research Professor at the City University of New York and a Senior Scholar at the Stone Center on Socio-Economic Inequality. He served as the lead economist in the World Bank’s Research Department for almost 20 years. His most recent book is Visions of Inequality: From the French Revolution to the End of the Cold War (amzn.to/46FcoLM).

Key Highlights
• Introduction - 0:31
• Why Economic Inequality - 2:53
• Ideas Before 1820 - 13:26
• Marx and Socialism - 19:52
• Piketty and Modern Thought - 40:17
Key Links

Visions of Inequality: From the French Revolution to the End of the Cold War (amzn.to/46jV9Q7) by Branko Milanovic

globalinequality (glineq.blogspot.com) blog by Branko Milanovic

Follow Branko Milanovic on X @BrankoMilan (twitter.com/BrankoMilan)

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