Haves and the Have-NotsBranko Milanovic
Haves and the Have-Nots
by Branko Milanovic · first published 2010
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A fantastic overview of poverty across the history of humanity comes in a short book: The Haves and the Have-Nots: A Brief and Idiosyncratic History of Global Inequality Paperback by economist Branko Milanovic, in which he compares wealth and poverty across millennia. And for a serious philosophical treatment about…
on “A letter to Steven Pinker about global poverty” ↗I strongly recommend Branko Milanovic's book The Haves and the Have-Nots: A Brief and Idiosyncratic History of Global Inequality as an overview of poverty across millennia.
on “A letter to Steven Pinker about global poverty” ↗The fantastic book[1] The Haves and the Have-Nots: A Brief and Idiosyncratic History of Global Inequality by Branko Milanovic points out that the 3 most-important correlated determinants of financial success in life are, in order: 1. Geography (which…
on “How to win Monopoly in the shortest possible time” ↗…https://www.worldcat.org/title/spirit-level-why-equality-is-... Thomas Picketty's works (Capital in the Twenty-First Century and Capital and Ideology) fit into this discussion. Oxfam have a set of suggestions as well, notably Branko Milanovic's The Haves and the Have-Nots: https://politicsofpoverty.oxfamamerica.org/three-must-read-b...
on “IRS records reveal how the wealthiest avoid income tax” ↗A marvelous book comparing income and wealth across centuries is The Haves and the Have-Nots - A Brief and Idiosyncratic History of Global Inequality by Branko Milanovic. One way to compare wealth is to see how many people's labor an individual could purchase. It differs across time and countries…
on “How much did a tunic cost in the Roman Empire? (2021)” ↗Branko Milanovic is one of my favorite researchers. His "Elephant Curve" is well-know. His book "The Haves and the Have-Nots" is excellent. I used his dataset to replicate his results to show inequality in an interactive form here: https://income-inequality.info
on “Capitalism, Alone” ↗I found Branko Milanovic's "The Haves and the Have-Nots: A Brief and Idiosyncratic History of Global Inequality" to be an eye-opener. Roughly paraphrased, if you're in the top half of the US, your equivalent in India would be the top 1%. I don't remember…
on “Stanford historian uncovers a grim correlation between violence and inequality” ↗…way off. The top 5% of Indians by income have approximately the same level of purchasing power as the the lowest 5% of US residents on average according to World Bank economist Branko Milanovic in The Haves and the Have-Nots, a Brief and Idiosyncratic History of Global Inequality. [http://www.amazon.com/Haves-Have-Nots-Idiosyncratic-History-...] That's not to say that there are not a large number of Indian individuals with…
on “Indians cry out for Apple's attention” ↗