Global Inequality

Branko Milanovic is Senior Scholar at the Luxembourg Income Study Center, and Visiting Presidential Professor, Graduate Center, City University of New York.

出版者:Belknap Press

作者:Branko Milanovic

页数:320

出版时间:2016-4-11

价格:USD 29.95

装帧:Hardcover

isbn号码:9780674737136

图书标签:经济全球化经济学政治经济学不平等政治学国际政治经济学比较政治经济学

One of the world’s leading economists of inequality, Branko Milanovic presents a bold new account of the dynamics that drive inequality on a global scale. Drawing on vast data sets and cutting-edge research, he explains the benign and malign forces that make inequality rise and fall within and among nations. He also reveals who has been helped the most by globalization, who has been held back, and what policies might tilt the balance toward economic justice.

Global Inequality takes us back hundreds of years, and as far around the world as data allow, to show that inequality moves in cycles, fueled by war and disease, technological disruption, access to education, and redistribution. The recent surge of inequality in the West has been driven by the revolution in technology, just as the Industrial Revolution drove inequality 150 years ago. But even as inequality has soared within nations, it has fallen dramatically among nations, as middle-class incomes in China and India have drawn closer to the stagnating incomes of the middle classes in the developed world. A more open migration policy would reduce global inequality even further.

Both American and Chinese inequality seems well entrenched and self-reproducing, though it is difficult to predict if current trends will be derailed by emerging plutocracy, populism, or war. For those who want to understand how we got where we are, where we may be heading, and what policies might help reverse that course, Milanovic’s compelling explanation is the ideal place to start.

读后感

This review originally serves as last year’s final project of development studies. Full-length version to be uploaded if I remember) Insightful revision of the conventional Kuznet’s Wave to interpret the extent of inequality in relation to state of develo...

本书是2016年经济学人的年度最佳图书之一，如果对全球化和不平等感兴趣的话，这是一本不应该错过的书。我看了Milanović的很多论文，不得不说他在这个领域有相当多的开创性研究，这本书算是他对自己研究的一个总结。比起大红大紫的皮凯蒂和他的《21世纪资本论》，这本书没有...  

1. 大象曲线：全球化的赢家是亚洲的贫困人口与新兴中产阶层、全球top 1%富豪，输家是富裕国家的中下阶层。 2. 皮凯蒂的理论资本回报率显著高于劳动收益率是不平等的根源，却无法解释二十世纪前的不平等变化。 3. Kuznetz wave：工业革命前，不平等围绕固定的平均收入上下波动。...  

1. 大象曲线：全球化的赢家是亚洲的贫困人口与新兴中产阶层、全球top 1%富豪，输家是富裕国家的中下阶层。 2. 皮凯蒂的理论资本回报率显著高于劳动收益率是不平等的根源，却无法解释二十世纪前的不平等变化。 3. Kuznetz wave：工业革命前，不平等围绕固定的平均收入上下波动。...  

1. 大象曲线：全球化的赢家是亚洲的贫困人口与新兴中产阶层、全球top 1%富豪，输家是富裕国家的中下阶层。 2. 皮凯蒂的理论资本回报率显著高于劳动收益率是不平等的根源，却无法解释二十世纪前的不平等变化。 3. Kuznetz wave：工业革命前，不平等围绕固定的平均收入上下波动。...  

用户评价

非常非常有力的著作。个人以为如果去掉《21世纪资本论》里一些过分华丽的辞藻和理论装饰，硬货（尤其是对测量不平等方法的讨论）、思维深度和长时段历史背景的注意力均比不上此书。

4-

总体结论不怎么controversial，对于把一些比较松散的个人印象串联起来算是有帮助。作为经济学家来说对数据的分析、解读尤其是对其局限性的认知以及对相关的社会政治背景的讨论算是相当不错了，可惜还是有点泛泛而谈。

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泛泛读了一下，感觉对我而言并没有多少新东西。