Branko Milanovic

An Economist Best Book of the Year A Financial Times Best Book of the Year A Foreign Affairs Best Book of the Year A ProMarket Best Book of the Year A Prospect Best Book of the Year A provocative account of capitalism's rise to global dominance and, as different models of capitalism vie for world leadership, a look into what...

A Financial Times Best Economics Book of the Year "An essential and insightful analysis of the history of economic inequality urgently relevant today…a groundbreaking work, bound to influence the economics profession and our worldview." - LSE Review of Books "A history of the changing ways economists have broached the subject [of inequality] since the French Revolution…[Milanovic] describes how Western economists...

A sweeping and original history of how economists across two centuries have thought about inequality, told through portraits of six key figures. "How do you see income distribution in your time, and how and why do you expect it to change?" That is the question Branko Milanovic figuratively puts to six very different economists: François Quesnay, Adam Smith, David Ricardo,...

A world-leading economist guides us through the ruins of the current world order- where do we go next? A Financial Times Book of the Year Global neoliberalism is on its last legs, while a new international economic order is taking hold. Trade blocs, tariff wars, economic sanctions, and national champions are in; nationalism, anti-immigration movements and the far-right are on...

An Economist Best Book of the Year A Financial Times Best Book of the Year A Foreign Affairs Best Book of the Year A ProMarket Best Book of the Year A Prospect Best Book of the Year A provocative account of capitalism's rise to global dominance and, as different models of capitalism vie for world leadership, a look into what...

Branko Milanovic is best known as one of the world’s leading experts on global inequality. But he is also an unusually wide-ranging and penetrating commentator on subjects across economics and beyond, in politics, history, and culture. The World Under Capitalism brings together his most searching, provocative, and entertaining articles of recent years, providing an abundance of vital insights into the...