Global Inequality

书名：Global InequalityANewApproachfortheAgeofGlobalization
作者：BrankoMilanovic
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ISBN：9780674737136
出版社：BelknapPress
出版时间：2016-4-11
格式：epub/mobi/azw3/pdf
页数：320
豆瓣评分： 8.3

书籍简介：

One of the world’s leading economists of inequality, Branko Milanovic presents a bold new account of the dynamics that drive inequality on a global scale. Drawing on vast data sets and cutting-edge research, he explains the benign and malign forces that make inequality rise and fall within and among nations. He also reveals who has been helped the most by globalization, who has been held back, and what policies might tilt the balance toward economic justice. Global Inequality takes us back hundreds of years, and as far around the world as data allow, to show that inequality moves in cycles, fueled by war and disease, technological disruption, access to education, and redistribution. The recent surge of inequality in the West has been driven by the revolution in technology, just as the Industrial Revolution drove inequality 150 years ago. But even as inequality has soared within nations, it has fallen dramatically among nations, as middle-class incomes in China and India have drawn closer to the stagnating incomes of the middle classes in the developed world. A more open migration policy would reduce global inequality even further. Both American and Chinese inequality seems well entrenched and self-reproducing, though it is difficult to predict if current trends will be derailed by emerging plutocracy, populism, or war. For those who want to understand how we got where we are, where we may be heading, and what policies might help reverse that course, Milanovic’s compelling explanation is the ideal place to start.

作者简介：

Branko Milanovic is Senior Scholar at the Luxembourg Income Study Center, and Visiting Presidential Professor, Graduate Center, City University of New York.

书友短评：

@ Casual infer 写得很棒，非偏向性技术进步是个问题，也对库兹涅兹做出了一定的反驳。不过虽然从历史过程上的反驳可以，解释仍然是细碎的，太多的“内生变量”无法解释。不平等似乎已经完全由经济学（或者某套发展政治学）主导了，概念化和理论都很厉害。社会学能做出什么努力呢，不平等似乎还有很多变量在寻求机制解释？但是性别、种族问题对这些机制有什么阐释？这方面现在的理论化水平太弱了，少数的理论发展还是二十年前的蒂利还有更早的布劳。 @ ShaOyu 从经济角度出发，提出库兹涅茨波浪及公民溢价等新概念来解读全球不平等。但是仍有一定的局限性，首先是其对于不平等的解读局限于收入，并未直接含括性别，种族、地域差异和殖民历史等更多元的概念。其次是，书中的某些观念，无法预见疫情时代的现实。米兰诺维奇认为像疫情和战争这种大规模的公众事件，可以通过减少所有人的真实收入来实现降低不平等。但现实是，新冠疫情使贫困率回到了30年前的水平的同时，进一步激化了不平等。高端的职业可以通过远程办公实现，而体力劳动者们则被迫失业，富豪们通过亚马逊等互联网企业增加资产。 但总体而言提供了思考全球不平等问题新的有用的思路。 @ Layla 可以通过浏览本书所有的表格图案及描述了解全书观点的一本书。非常好读-同时也证明观点不是很新颖不需要人停下来思考。主要观点就是提出global inequality应该是between country 和within country的inequality加起来。一个比较有趣的概念是citizenship premium，虽然也不是一个新颖的思考方向了不过这个名字不错。把kuznets cycle进阶到wave也是个用词命名上的不错尝试，但也不算新的argument。总体来说就说了一些patterns和trends，我觉得挺commonsensical的，也挺west的（就是会被post-colonialists批评那种）所以看这本书看完图片就行了。 @ George 写得很棒，非偏向性技术进步是个问题，也对库兹涅兹做出了一定的反驳。不过虽然从历史过程上的反驳可以，解释仍然是细碎的，太多的“内生变量”无法解释。不平等似乎已经完全由经济学（或者某套发展政治学）主导了，概念化和理论都很厉害。社会学能做出什么努力呢，不平等似乎还有很多变量在寻求机制解释？但是性别、种族问题对这些机制有什么阐释？这方面现在的理论化水平太弱了，少数的理论发展还是二十年前的蒂利还有更早的布劳。 @ Layla 从经济角度出发，提出库兹涅茨波浪及公民溢价等新概念来解读全球不平等。但是仍有一定的局限性，首先是其对于不平等的解读局限于收入，并未直接含括性别，种族、地域差异和殖民历史等更多元的概念。其次是，书中的某些观念，无法预见疫情时代的现实。米兰诺维奇认为像疫情和战争这种大规模的公众事件，可以通过减少所有人的真实收入来实现降低不平等。但现实是，新冠疫情使贫困率回到了30年前的水平的同时，进一步激化了不平等。高端的职业可以通过远程办公实现，而体力劳动者们则被迫失业，富豪们通过亚马逊等互联网企业增加资产。 但总体而言提供了思考全球不平等问题新的有用的思路。 @ Hallucina. Insightful on revised Kuznet Curve and the elephant curve in depicting global convergence. Radical proposal on immigration reform as a means to facilitating convergence, regardless of implementation challenges and onerous political battles

Acknowledgments
Introduction
1. The Rise of the Global Middle Class and Global Plutocrats
2. Inequality within Countries: Introducing Kuznets Waves to Explain Long-Term Trends in Inequality
3. Inequality among Countries: From Karl Marx to Frantz Fanon, and Then Back to Marx?
4. Global Inequality in This Century and the Next
5. What Next? Ten Short Reflections on the Future of Income Inequality and Globalization
Notes
References
Index
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