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.
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- Piketty and Modern Thought - 40:17
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10/10/23 • 47 min
Democracy Paradox - Branko Milanovic on Different Visions of Inequality
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In 2013 a book was published in French that changed the way many thought about economic inequality. A year later the English translation was published. It is called Capital in the Twenty-First Century. Part of the reason it was so influential is it brought ideas about inequality back into the public conversation and into serious debates about economic theory.
But Piketty was not the first to think about economic inequality. Many of the greatest minds in economics had quite a bit to say a
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