Branko milanovic biography of williams

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Branko Milanović is an economist specialised in development and inequality. His newest  book is “Capitalism, Alone: The Future of the System That Rules the World”. His new book, The Visions of inequality, was published October 10, 2023.

Cross-posted from Branko Milanović’s substack

He got to the river quay, or more exactly to the sidewalk on the other side of the paved road running along the river, in the late morning. Too many people came out to see his Royal and Imperial Majesty. It was a beautiful, warm June day, the first week of what seemed likely to be a glorious summer. The pistol in his light summer jacket made him feel uncomfortable. Strange, he thought, that no one has noticed the big bulge yet. He covered it first with his hand, then by putting his tightly squeezed fist in the pocket. Suddenly there was some commotion. The crowd shouted and moved. At first, he could not understand what they were saying. Then he heard the word “attentat”. That meant that one of his four co-conspirators shot his Majesty. A feeling of pride and fear mounted in him. Then another commotion, more yelling, disorder, running: nothing has happened they were shouting now: his Majesty was unharmed, a fiend

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Intro. [Recording date: October 26th, 2020.]

Russ Roberts: Today is October 26th, 2020, and my guest is economist and author Branko Milanovic. He is a visiting Presidential Professor at the Graduate Center of CUNY, the City University of New York, and a senior scholar at CUNY Stone Center on Socio-Economic Inequality.

I want to thank Plantronics for providing today's guest with the Blackwire 5220 Headset.

This is Branko's second appearance on EconTalk. He was last here in May of 2020--which seems like about 25 years ago--talking about his book, Capitalism, Alone. Branko, welcome back to EconTalk.

Branko Milanovic: Thank you very much, Russ. It's really a pleasure; and it was really a pleasure last May, which now seems like really a different world.

Russ Roberts: Yeah. It was a great conversation.

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Russ Roberts: Our topic for today is what we might call the big questions of economics. You've argued recently on Twitter and in a PowerPoint presentation that the Nobel Prize should be awarded for those big questions. So, we're going to talk about what those big questions are, what they might be, what we know and don't know about them. And, I just want to start with the Nobel Prize in economics. What's your criticism of the decisions that are being

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