Capitalism, Alone

The Future of the System That Rules the World

Branko Milanovic

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$29.95 • £23.95 • €27.00

ISBN 9780674987593

Publication Date: 09/24/2019

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304 pages

6-1/8 x 9-1/4 inches

26 illus., 3 tables

Belknap Press

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Branko Milanovic is Visiting Presidential Professor and Core Faculty at the Stone Center on Socio-Economic Inequality at the Graduate Center, City University of New York. He was formerly Lead Economist in the World Bank’s research department. His books include Global Inequality and The Haves and the Have-Nots: A Brief and Idiosyncratic History of Global Inequality.

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On WBUR (Boston, MA)’s Here and Now, listen to Branko Milanovic discuss recent civil unrest across the globe—in Hong Kong, Chile, Catalonia, Iran, and Lebanon—which he attributes to a feeling among the poor of being excluded from the political and social life of their countries—and, increasingly, denied a fair shot at those countries’ income growth
At Bloomberg and Reuters, read more about Milanovic’s analysis of the economic underpinnings of recent political unrest in Chile
At Quillette, read an excerpt from Capitalism, Alone on one of the less-discussed drivers of economic inequality: assortive mating, when the rich marry the rich
Read an interview with Professor Milanovic at the Berggruen Institute publication The WorldPost
At Global Policy [in English] and Letras Libres [in Spanish], read Milanovic on why reports of capitalism’s imminent demise have been greatly exaggerated
Read a Q&A with Milanovic at ProMarket, the blog of the University of Chicago’s Stigler Center for the Study of the Economy and the State
Read an excerpt from Capitalism, Alone at ProMarket
Read a New Yorker feature, including discussion of Milanovic’s research, on the increasingly recognized cyclical boom-and-bust nature of inequality
On the Oxfam podcast From Poverty to Power, listen to Milanovic’s conversation about global inequality with London School of Economics Professor (and Oxfam strategic adviser) Duncan Green
Listen to Milanovic’s conversation with Dr Alice Evans of King’s College London on her podcast Rocking Our Priors
Listen to Milanovic lecture on Capitalism, Alone at the London School of Economics and Political Science
At El Mostrador, watch Milanovic discuss inequality in Chile at the 2019 LSE Festival in London [in English with Spanish captioning]
Watch a brief interview with Milanovic in advance of his November 2019 lecture at the Institut Barcelona d’Estudis Internacionals [in English]
Read an ARA interview with Milanovic [in Catalan]
Read about Capitalism, Alone at El Confidencial [in Spanish]
Read a Frankfurter Allgemeine interview with Milanovic [in German]
At Le Monde, read Milanovic’s argument that capitalism has become too powerful [in French]
Follow Branko Milanovic’s blog, globalinequality

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