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Branko Milanovic on Capitalism, Alone

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The Importance of Inequality in the United States

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I've been working on income inequality for like three decades now. It has become a big political topic in the last maybe, I don't know, seven, eight, maybe ten years. You can always use the data in a way which would kind of support your priorities. And it's only measuring incomes without government transfers and taxes that is somewhat of a mistake. So we're going to get into China a little bit later and we're also getting into some of the more philosophical and my favorite part of the book. Unusual came at the end. Usually the first third of a book is the best part. In this case, I learned something in the first third, but I learned most

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