Inequality is shooting up, but the genico efficient and vague terms is becoming worse. That's true in practically every country in the world - with a few exceptions. Even if each individual classroom became more unequal, that doesn't mean global inequality went down. "The economics converging to some extent with the rich world," he says.
Yascha Mounk and Branko Milanovic discuss what his famous elephant curve says about the ills—and the gains—of globalization; how the left’s concern with inequality is being turned against its concern with internationalism; why economic causes of populism are often expressed in cultural ways; and how a determination to increase the financial and educational endowments of ordinary citizens can combat inequality and boost their living standards.
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