Ashle: The elephant curve reflects the rate of growth in real income over the period between 1988 and 2011. It's basically story of the Chinese middle class and growth of China, he says. And then you find out that they're really dominantly lower middle classes from the rich world, Ashle adds.
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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