Capitalism, Alone Av Branko Milanovic

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<I> The Haves and the Have-Nots</I>,...

Branko Milanovic charts 200 years of the fascinating history of the discourse on inequality through portraits of six key economists, from Quesnay to Kuznets. In their work and lives, we see how differently each conceived of inequality, and how the subject,...

The first volume of The Cambridge History of Capitalism delves deep into the historical roots of capitalism to provide a definitive account of its evolution. Adopting a wide geographical coverage and comparative perspective, a range of expert scholars...

Communism has collapsed. Capitalism has rid itself of the competition on which it thrives. But though now victorious, capitalism has become a threat. The future of us all may be shaped by the outcome of the conflict between capitalism as victor and capitalism...