Rancor: I was struck by the degree to which a city like Prague has become part of the affluent West. He says there's not a story of economics stagnation in Eastern Europe. Rancor: The convergence of Eastern Europe is very weak, and then you're comparing something from 27 years ago.
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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