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A Brief and Idiosyncratic History of Global Inequality
Basic Books
January 2011
On Sale: December 28, 2010
272 pages
ISBN: 0465019749
EAN: 9780465019748
Hardcover
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Non-Fiction
Who is the richest person in the world, ever? Does where you
were born affect how much 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, one 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
throughout our world, now and through time.
Milanovic uses history, literature and stories straight out
of today’s newspapers, to discuss one 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
really 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 should think about Marxism in a modern
world; and how location where one is born determines his
wealth. He goes beyond mere entertainment to explain why
inequality matters, how it damages our economics prospects,
and how it can threaten the foundations of the social order
that we take for granted.
Bold, engaging, and illuminating, The Haves and the
Have-Nots teaches us not only how to think about inequality,
but why we should.
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