Branko Milanovic is Visiting Presidential Professor at the Graduate Center University of New York and Senior Scholar at Luxembourg Income Center. At the time of the writing of the paper he was with the World Bank Development Research Group. His most recent book is The Haves and the Have-Nots: A Brief and Idiosyncratic History of Global Inequality, Basic books, 2011.
The effects of trade, or more broadly of globalisation, on incomes and their distribution in the rich countries have been much studied, beginning with a number of works on wage distributi...
In 1955 when Simon Kuznets wrote about the movement of inequality in rich countries (and a couple of poor ones), the US and the UK were in the midst of the most significant decrease of in...
People who have read my posts in the past two years might have noticed that I discussed several times the origins of World War I (here and here and here). There are two reasons why I beli...
