The Haves and the Have-Nots

A Brief and Idiosyncratic History of Global Inequality

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Who is the richest person in the world, ever? Does where you were born affect how much money you’ll earn over a lifetime? How would we know? Why—beyond the idle curiosity—do these questions even matter? In The Haves and the Have-Nots, Branko Milanovic, one of the world’s leading experts on wealth, poverty, and the gap that separates them, explains these and other mysteries of how wealth is unevenly spread throughout our world, now and through time.
 
Milanovic uses history, literature and stories straight out of today’s newspapers, to discuss one of the major divisions in our...
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