The Haves and the Have-Nots: A Brief and Idiosyncratic History of Global Inequality

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Who is the richest person on the earth, ever? Does where you were born impact what quantity of 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, some 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 all through our world, now and through time.
 
Milanovic uses history, literature and stories straight out of today’s newspapers, to discuss some 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 actually 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 must take into accounts Marxism in a modern world; and how location where one is born determines his wealth. He goes beyond mere entertainment to give an explanation for why inequality matters, how it damages our economics prospects, and how it can threaten the foundations of the social order that we take with no consideration.
 

Bold, engaging, and illuminating, The Haves and the Have-Nots teaches us not only how to take into accounts inequality, but why we must.

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