Global inequality by Branko Milanovic, a senior scholar at the Luxembourg Income Study Center in New York, is essential reading for those wishing to gain an understanding of the deepest roots of the unequal wealth and income distribution in a historical and global context. Current globalization, mid‐1980s to today: The rise of the global middle class and ... From twenty_years\final\summary_data X “US lower … Global Inequality: A New Approach for the Age of Globalization. Global Inequality: From Class to Location, from Proletarians to Migrants. Branko Milanovic. The term “global inequality” appears for the first time in print in a 1974 article on the global food crisis by Mick McLean and Mike Hopkins (“Problems of World Food and Agriculture: Projections, Models and Possible Approaches,” Futures). The structure of the book. Pp. The answer turns out to complicated and uncertain (see Lakner and Milanovic, 2013 for details) but in the end most of the evidence points to decreasing global inequality in this sense too. Global inequality: A new approach for the age of globalization A book talk Branko Milanovic May 1, 2016. By Branko Milanovic. Ha-Joon Chang (Korea/UK), Dani Rodrik (Turkey/US) and now Branko Milanovic (Serbia/US), whose latest book Global Inequality: A New Approach for the Age of Globalization is a brilliant and thought-provoking essay stuffed with enough graphs to satisfy the numerati, anecdotes for the general reader and political insights for the policy wonks. Search for more papers by this author. Global Inequality Lakner and Milanovic (2016) Summary 1. Branko Milanovic. Read it. Global (interpersonal) inequality •Global inequality fell, especially between 2008 and 2013. Chapter 1. The paper was written while I was a visiting fellow at Universidad Carlos III in Madrid. •Driven by falling between-country inequality (convergence in mean incomes), but continues to account for 2/3 of global inequality. 320. The book begins with a … In Global Inequality: A New Approach for the Age of Globalization, Branko Milanovic offers a new account of the dynamics that are driving inequality on a global scale. Global Inequality goes well beyond the narrative of rising inequality captured by French economist Thomas Piketty’s surprise 2014 best-seller, Capital in the Twenty-First Century. Global inequality has been rising since the 1850s, essentially driven by the success of the currently advanced rich countries that became much richer than the rest of the world and thus increased the gaps between themselves and the rest of the world (essentially China and India), and of course increased inequality between world citizens. Income inequality between countries is a significant factor that contributes to global inequality. Cambridge, MA: Harvard University Press, 2016.