The middle class in the rich countries is where the political game is being played. They are voting in elections in the U.S., U.K., France and German…

- Branko Milanovic

Global inequality is such an abstract concept, simply because there is no global government. Telling people in rich countries who have had no increas…

- Branko Milanovic

Most people believe that inequality is rising - and indeed it has been rising for a while in a number of rich countries. And there is lots of talk an…

- Branko Milanovic

People in the rich countries who have done very well, who are at the top of the income pyramid, try to steamroll over the opposition of the middle wi…

- Branko Milanovic

In the U.S. when people like me started writing things about inequality, the economic journals had no classification for inequality. I couldn't find …

- Branko Milanovic

When the industrial revolution happened there was the Luddistic movement, and there was a fear that machinery would replace all the labor. Whenever w…

- Branko Milanovic

If, for example, each of us had the same share of capital in the national total capital, then if the share of capital goes up it's not a problem, bec…

- Branko Milanovic

What is different between national inequality and global inequality is you have another element there that is sometimes forgotten: what matters for g…

- Branko Milanovic

If we knew what type of jobs would exist in 20 years, we would be quite rich. But we just cannot visualize it.

- Branko Milanovic