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Overview
We are used to thinking about inequality within countries-about rich Americans versus poor Americans, for instance. But what about inequality between all citizens of the world? Worlds Apart addresses just how to measure global inequality among individuals, and shows that inequality is shaped by complex forces often working in different directions. Branko Milanovic, a top World Bank economist, analyzes income distribution worldwide using, for the first time, household survey data from more than 100 countries. He evenhandedly explains the main approaches to the problem, offers a more accurate way of measuring inequality among individuals, and discusses the relevant policies of first-world countries and nongovernmental organizations.About the Author:
Branko Milanovic is a visiting professor at Johns Hopkins University's School for Advanced International Studies
Editorials
Toronto Globe and Mail
Branko Milanovic makes a difficult subject remarkably accessible. His expertise and intellectual integrity inform every page.
— Thomas Homer-Dixon
Ethics and International Affairs
Worlds Apart offers a thorough description of relative inequalities in the world, and does so by setting research quality standards to which future studies should be held.
— Camelia Minouiu
Times Higher Education Supplement -
The history of world inequality is a fascinating subject, and Branko Milanovic's very readable book uses this as a backdrop to explain the problems of measuring inequality when we look across different countries. . . . [I]t is certainly an interesting read.Toronto Globe and Mail -
Branko Milanovic makes a difficult subject remarkably accessible. His expertise and intellectual integrity inform every page.Ethics & International Affairs -
Worlds Apart offers a thorough description of relative inequalities in the world, and does so by setting research quality standards to which future studies should be held."The Globe and Mail mas Homer-Dixon
A lead economist at the World Bank, Branko Milanovic has written probably the most comprehensive, thorough and balanced assessment yet of global inequality. . . . Milanovic makes a powerful and distressing argument for the intractability of inequality. His expertise and integrity inform every page.
The Globe and Mail
A lead economist at the World Bank, Branko Milanovic has written probably the most comprehensive, thorough and balanced assessment yet of global inequality. . . . Milanovic makes a powerful and distressing argument for the intractability of inequality. His expertise and integrity inform every page.Toronto Globe & Mail
Branko Milanovic makes a difficult subject remarkably accessible. His expertise and intellectual integrity inform every page.— Thomas Homer-Dixon
Times Higher Education Supplement
The history of world inequality is a fascinating subject, and Branko Milanovic's very readable book uses this as a backdrop to explain the problems of measuring inequality when we look across different countries. . . . [I]t is certainly an interesting read.— Huw Dixon
Choice
Branko Milanovic masterfully explores standard and new measures of income inequality among nations and among individuals, extraterritorially. . . . The work should be required reading for anyone involved in social and economic research and policy relating to income inequality worldwide.Ethics & International Affairs
Worlds Apart offers a thorough description of relative inequalities in the world, and does so by setting research quality standards to which future studies should be held.— Camelia Minouiu
Book Details
Published
June 10, 2005
Publisher
Princeton, N.J. ; Princeton University Press, 2005.
Pages
240
Format
Hardcover
ISBN
9780691121109