Branko Milanović’s century-spanning intellectual history of inequality in economic theory reveals the ideological reasons behind the field’s resurgence in the last few decades. Branko Milanovic, 2017.

For Americans, a report saying inequality has dramatically fallen seems absurd. In the West, the gap between the rich and poor has been widening, and the middle class is gradually vanishing. But on a ...

During the Great Recession, public discourse about the economy underwent something of a Great Disappointment. For much of the country’s history, most Americans assumed that the future would bring them ...

Your guide to what Trump’s second term means for Washington, business and the world Branko Milanović first became famous (well, economist-famous) when he and his colleague Christoph Lakner published ...

Thirty-five years ago, the global economy could be neatly divided into market economies, socialist economies and poorer non-aligned countries. Today, that picture is rather more complicated.

Social Consequences of the Pandemic "The Super-Rich in the West Are Evading Their Responsibility" Former top World Bank economist Branko Milanović is afraid that the coronavirus pandemic has deepened ...

Branko Milanović looks at long-term developments. For decades the economist studied inequality, poverty, and global trends. His most recent work, «Capitalism, Alone», explains the triumph of ...

• Branko Milanović is an economist who specialises in development and inequality. He is currently Visiting Presidential Professor at City University of New York Graduate Center. As the world's richest ...

In a short column last January on the most important economic chart of the year, Paul Krugman chose what has been dubbed the “elephant curve.” Drawn from a paper by Branko Milanović and Christoph ...

The coronavirus pandemic has made it undeniable that there is no drive for the necessary co-operation. It is not true that when we are all in the same boat, communities stick together. This is one of ...