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 social lives: between the haves and the
have-nots. He reveals just how rich Elizabeth Bennet’s suitor Mr. Darcy
really was; how much Anna Karenina gained by falling in love; how
wealthy ancient Romans compare to today’s super-rich; where in Kenyan
income distribution was Obama’s grandfather; how we should think about
Marxism in a modern world; and how location where one is born determines
his wealth. He goes beyond mere entertainment to explain why inequality
matters, how it damages our economics prospects, and how it can
threaten the foundations of the social order that we take for granted.
Bold, engaging, and illuminating,
The Haves and the Have-Nots teaches us not only how to think about inequality, but why we should.
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