{"title":"Branko Milanovic","description":"\u003cp\u003eBranko Milanovic's works delve deeply into the complexities of global economics, inequality, and the evolving dynamics of capitalism. His thoughtful analyses offer readers a nuanced understanding of how economic systems impact societies worldwide.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\n\u003cp\u003eIdeal for those interested in \u003cem\u003eeducation, business,\u003c\/em\u003e and \u003cem\u003eentrepreneurship,\u003c\/em\u003e Milanovic's books provide rigorous exploration of economic transformation and the forces shaping our world today.\u003c\/p\u003e","products":[{"product_id":"capitalism-alone-by-branko-milanovic-9780674260306","title":"Capitalism, Alone","description":"\u003cdiv class=\"book-description\"\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003eAn \u003ci\u003eEconomist\u003c\/i\u003e Best Book of the Year\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\n\u003cb\u003eA \u003ci\u003eFinancial Times\u003c\/i\u003e Best Book of the Year\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\n\u003cb\u003eA \u003ci\u003eForeign Affairs\u003c\/i\u003e Best Book of the Year\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\n\u003cb\u003eA \u003ci\u003eProMarket\u003c\/i\u003e Best Book of the Year\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\n\u003cb\u003eA \u003ci\u003eProspect\u003c\/i\u003e Best Book of the Year\u003c\/b\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003eA provocative account of capitalism's rise to global dominance and, as different models of capitalism vie for world leadership, a look into what the future may hold.\u003c\/b\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\n\u003cp\u003eWe are all capitalists now. For the first time in human history, the globe is dominated by one economic system. In \u003ci\u003eCapitalism, Alone\u003c\/i\u003e, leading economist Branko Milanovic explains the reasons for this decisive historical shift since the days of feudalism and, later, communism. Surveying the varieties of capitalism, he asks: What are the prospects for a fairer world now that capitalism is the only game in town? His conclusions are sobering, but not fatalistic. Capitalism gets much wrong, but also much right— and it is not going anywhere. Our task is to improve it.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\n\u003cp\u003eMilanovic argues that capitalism has triumphed because it works. It delivers prosperity and gratifies human desires for autonomy. But it comes with a moral price, pushing us to treat material success as the ultimate goal. And it offers no guarantee of stability. In the West, liberal capitalism creaks under the strains of inequality and capitalist excess. That model now fights for hearts and minds with political capitalism, exemplified by China, which many claim is more efficient, but which is more vulnerable to corruption and, when growth is slow, social unrest.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\n\u003cp\u003eAs for the economic problems of the Global South, Milanovic offers a creative, if controversial, plan for large-scale migration. Looking to the future, he dismisses prophets who proclaim some single outcome to be inevitable, whether worldwide prosperity or robot-driven mass unemployment. Capitalism is a risky system. But it is a human system. 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That makes for original, and sometimes amusingly wry, revelations.\" - \u003cem\u003eLiterary Review\u003c\/em\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\n\u003cp\u003e\"How do you see income distribution in your time, and how and why do you expect it to change?\" Branko Milanovic imagines posing this question to six of history's most influential economists. Probing the works of these key thinkers in the context of their lives, Milanovic charts the evolution of the concept of inequality across the centuries. We cannot speak of inequality in general, he argues: any analysis of it is inextricably linked to a particular time and place.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cem\u003eVisions of Inequality\u003c\/em\u003e takes us from François Quesnay, for whom social classes were prescribed by law, through Adam Smith, David Ricardo, and Karl Marx, who saw class as a purely economic category determined by one's relation to the means of production. Later, Vilfredo Pareto reconceived class in terms of elites versus the rest, while Simon Kuznets saw inequality arising from the urban-rural divide. Milanovic further explores why inequality receded from scholarship during the Cold War, before gaining renewed attention in economics today.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\n\u003cp\u003eAn invaluable intellectual genealogy, \u003cem\u003eVisions of Inequality\u003c\/em\u003e brings nuanced insight to a hotly contested idea.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003c\/div\u003e","brand":"Unknown","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":46871584964844,"sku":"9780674301573","price":47.99,"currency_code":"NZD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0705\/7784\/8556\/files\/1517613482428.jpg?v=1759885448"},{"product_id":"visions-of-inequality-by-branko-milanovic-9780674264144","title":"Visions of Inequality","description":"\u003cdiv class=\"book-description\"\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cstrong\u003eA sweeping and original history of how economists across two centuries have thought about inequality, told through portraits of six key figures.\u003c\/strong\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\n\u003cp\u003e\"How do you see income distribution in your time, and how and why do you expect it to change?\" That is the question Branko Milanovic figuratively puts to six very different economists: François Quesnay, Adam Smith, David Ricardo, Karl Marx, Vilfredo Pareto, and Simon Kuznets. Probing their lives and works, he charts the evolution of thought on inequality, showing just how much views have varied among ages and societies. Indeed, Milanovic argues, we cannot speak of \"inequality\" as a general concept: any analysis of it is inextricably linked to a particular time and place.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cem\u003eVisions of Inequality\u003c\/em\u003e takes us from Quesnay and the physiocrats, for whom social classes were prescribed by law, to the classic nineteenth-century treatises of Smith, Ricardo, and Marx, who saw class as a purely economic category driven by means of production. It shows how Pareto reconceived class as a matter of elites versus the rest of the population, while Kuznets saw inequality arising from the urban-rural divide. And it explains why inequality studies were eclipsed during the Cold War, before their remarkable resurgence as a central preoccupation in economics today.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\n\u003cp\u003eMeticulously distilling each author's view of income distribution from their often voluminous writings, Milanovic offers an invaluable genealogy of the discourse surrounding inequality. These intellectual portraits are infused not only with a deep understanding of economic theory but also with psychological nuance, reconstructing each thinker's outlook within the limitations of what was knowable to them within their historical contexts and methodologies.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003c\/div\u003e","brand":"Unknown","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":47341942178028,"sku":"9780674264144","price":66.99,"currency_code":"NZD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0705\/7784\/8556\/files\/1143323482428.jpg?v=1772194340"},{"product_id":"the-great-global-transformation-by-branko-milanovic-9780241678930","title":"The Great Global Transformation","description":"A world-leading economist guides us through the ruins of the current world order- where do we go next?\n\nA Financial Times Book of the Year\n\nGlobal neoliberalism is on its last legs, while a new international economic order is taking hold. Trade blocs, tariff wars, economic sanctions, and national champions are in; nationalism, anti-immigration movements and the far-right are on the rise. Liberalism is being rejected by the civic realm, as the status quo of the past fifty years crumbles. What remains in its wake?\n\nDrawing on original research, leading economist Branko Milanovic reveals the seismic shifts that are shaping our world. He details the facts- how the rising economic power of Asia is creating a new global 'middle class' in the greatest reshuffle of incomes since the Industrial Revolution. He explores our fears- why are we becoming increasingly unhappy, when the world is becoming richer and more equal? And he shows us the fight ahead- as plutocracy returns, global war threatens, and a new system silently shapes our nations, driving malcontent to breaking point. In The Great Global Transformation, Milanovic provides an invaluable guide to the new 21st century.","brand":"Penguin Random House NZ","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":47363113713900,"sku":"9780241678930","price":70.0,"currency_code":"NZD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0705\/7784\/8556\/files\/7dda9facc26562aca5c33da2974fdd03.jpg?v=1772931565"},{"product_id":"capitalism-alone-by-branko-milanovic-9780674987593","title":"Capitalism, Alone","description":"\u003cdiv class=\"book-description\"\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003eAn \u003ci\u003eEconomist\u003c\/i\u003e Best Book of the Year\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e  \n\u003cb\u003eA \u003ci\u003eFinancial Times\u003c\/i\u003e Best Book of the Year\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e  \n\u003cb\u003eA \u003ci\u003eForeign Affairs\u003c\/i\u003e Best Book of the Year\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e  \n\u003cb\u003eA \u003ci\u003eProMarket\u003c\/i\u003e Best Book of the Year\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e  \n\u003cb\u003eA \u003ci\u003eProspect\u003c\/i\u003e Best Book of the Year\u003c\/b\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003eA provocative account of capitalism's rise to global dominance and, as different models of capitalism vie for world leadership, a look into what the future may hold.\u003c\/b\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\n\u003cp\u003eWe are all capitalists now. For the first time in human history, the globe is dominated by one economic system. In \u003ci\u003eCapitalism, Alone\u003c\/i\u003e, leading economist Branko Milanovic explains the reasons for this decisive historical shift since the days of feudalism and, later, communism. Surveying the varieties of capitalism, he asks: What are the prospects for a fairer world now that capitalism is the only game in town? His conclusions are sobering, but not fatalistic. Capitalism gets much wrong, but also much right—and it is not going anywhere. Our task is to improve it.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\n\u003cp\u003eMilanovic argues that capitalism has triumphed because it works. It delivers prosperity and gratifies human desires for autonomy. But it comes with a moral price, pushing us to treat material success as the ultimate goal. And it offers no guarantee of stability. In the West, liberal capitalism creaks under the strains of inequality and capitalist excess. 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But he is also an unusually wide-ranging and penetrating commentator on subjects across economics and beyond, in politics, history, and culture. \u003cem\u003eThe World Under Capitalism\u003c\/em\u003e brings together his most searching, provocative, and entertaining articles of recent years, providing an abundance of vital insights into the evolution and dynamics of the world under capitalism.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\n\u003cp\u003eThis volume features important ideas about the struggle to achieve a more equal and prosperous world against not only the predictable forces of deregulation and distraction but new ideas about shrinking the economy to protect the environment. 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